Seed-stage investing is a fascinating space where startups can offer considerable growth potential in their earliest stages. That attractiveness is further fueled by the recent upsurge in successful Enterprise SaaS and B2B Fintech startups.

In this episode, Kevin Kaylakie talks with Anna Garcia, the Founder and Managing Partner of Altari Ventures, a New York–based venture capital fund focused on B2B Fintech and Enterprise SaaS startups. Anna shares her experience in pre-seed, seed, and post-seed funding and insights into her priority investment themes in today’s environment.

Anna discusses: 

• ”02:10” Her journey as a financial practitioner, an angel investor, and a venture capitalist
  
• ”06:57” The key differences between different stages of seed investing
  
• ”12:24” Advantages that smaller, newer managers have in venture capital
  
• ”19:01” The impact of recession on capital flows into private equity
  
• And more
  

Connect With Anna Garcia:

• Anna@altariventures.com 
  
• LinkedIn: Anna Garcia
  

Connect With SineCera Capital:

• Email: Kevin Kaylakie
  
• Email: Connee Sullivan
  
• Email: Adam Packer
  
• Contact SineCera Capital
  
• (512) 980-4600
  
• SineCera Capital
  
• LinkedIn: Kevin Kaylakie
  
• LinkedIn: Connee Sullivan
  
• LinkedIn: Adam Packer
  

About Our Guest:

Anna Garcia, CFA, is the founder and managing partner of Altari Ventures, a New York based venture capital fund focused on pre-seed, seed, B2B, FinTech, and enterprise SaaS. Altari Venture’s priority investment themes include data-driven business intelligence, capital markets technology, institutional asset management technology, CFO tech stack, embedded finance, and decentralized centralized infrastructure conversions.

Immediately prior to founding Altari, Anna was the general partner and co-founder of Runway Venture Partners, a post-seed B2B SaaS fund. Before venture, she spent 17 years on Wall Street in a variety of senior investment banking and asset management roles at Merrill Lynch, Jeffries and JP Morgan.

Since becoming involved in the New York startup ecosystem post financial crisis, Anna has actively leveraged her unique perspective as a financial practitioner and software investor, as well as her extensive network, to source and vet investment opportunities and support portfolio companies’ growth. Anna’s notable investments include Trumid, a FinTech unicorn, Liveoak Technologies acquired by DocuSign, Alet, taken public in a SPAC IPO, Logiwa, YayPay acquired by Quadient, Agilis, Monit. She was recognized with a market’s choice women in finance 2017 award for excellence in FinTech and named to innovate finance women in FinTech powerless of 2018.