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Podcast: The Hard Part with Evan McCann
Episode: Akash Vaswani from Velocity Fund
Description: Akash Vaswani is a General Partner at Velocity Fund.
Velocity Fund is a pre-seed fund spun out of the University of Waterloo to invest in world-changing companies at the earliest stage.
Waterloo grads have started companies like Databricks, Instacart, Faire, Substack, PagerDuty, Top Hat, ApplyBoard, D2L, Avidbots, BufferBox (acquired by Google), Kik, North (Formerly Thalmic Labs, Acquired by Google), Pebble (Acquired by Fitbit), Float, Vidyard and MUCH more.
Takeaways
What makes UWaterloo founders so strong, co-op, professors own their IP, success breeds success and more.
Why the co-op...