NextGen Newsletter - June 2023

NextGen is a 20+ year old community supporting each new generation of venture capital talent.

Hey y’all,

Hope everyone’s enjoying June and the full blown start of the summer (and good luck to any of you trying to dodge June Gloom + end of quarter expense filing). Hats off to those of you who organized events during the Tech Weeks in San Francisco and Los Angeles - loved seeing the community come together!

Read on for our June edition. Best wishes to all the dads out there celebrating Father’s Day this weekend.

Thanks,

Shawn and the NextGen Board

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Investors You Should Watch 👀

• Rising Star Highlight: Vardan Gattani is a Principal at 645 Ventures covering B2B software, with interests in commerce, supply chain, security, and enterprise SaaS. He’s worked closely with Shield AI and Shift5.

• Brendan Bulik-Sullivan, Crystal Huang, Frederique Dame, and Issi Rozen have been promoted to Partners at GV.

• Kristin Schaefer has joined as a General Partner at Atomic.

• Leigh Marie Braswell has left as Principal at Founders Fund and has joined as a Partner at Kleiner Perkins.

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Content You Should Check Out 📚

• The Liquidation Survival Guide Vol 1 and Vol 2: A guide to navigating term sheets and cap tables in the new environment from Scale VP’s Noah Gross.

• The Rise and Fall of Newchip Acclerator: Tech Coast Angels’ DC Palter dives into why Newchip was ordered to shut down.

• Sequoia Is Splitting Into Three VC Firms: Interviews with Sequoia’s leaders on their global reset.

• Something New: New podcast series from Floodgate’s Leeor Mushin & Steph Mui (ex-NEA). Think "How I Built This" but less "Guy Raz" and more "Guy Rizz."

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Jobs You Should Share 🤓

• Investor, Base10

• Associate, David & Lucille Packard Foundation

• Associate, Lightbank

• Associate, Climate Tech, MassMutual Ventures