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Safa Rashtchy

Founding Managing Partner at Think + Ventures, looking for entrepreneurs who never give up. Writing about #founders, #startups, #technology, #seedfunding, and #venturecapital

Safa Rashtchy is a prominent Silicon Valley investor, advisor, and board member with over 16 years of experience in the tech industry. He is currently the founder and Managing Partner of Think + Ventures, a venture capital firm he established in 2017.12

Professional Background

Safa's career spans various roles:

  • Founder and Managing Partner at Think + Ventures (2017 - Present)12
  • Investor and Advisor at Serve Robotics (2021 - Present)23
  • Investor and early advisor at ApplyBoard (2017 - Present)23
  • Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Jaffray (1997 - 2007)2

Investment Focus

Safa has invested in over 60 companies, with a particular emphasis on:

  • Market-driven investments
  • Consumer value proposition
  • Early-stage startups (seed to Series A)1

His current investment interests include:

  • Supply chain, logistics, and delivery
  • AI and LLM applications
  • Automation and robotics platforms
  • SMB optimization and productivity
  • Digital health
  • Defense and cybersecurity
  • Inclusion platforms1

Notable Investments

Some of Safa's notable investments include:

  • Serve Robotics
  • ApplyBoard
  • PayJoy
  • Tubi.tv (acquired by Fox Media)
  • Nimble VR (acquired by Facebook)
  • Signifyd
  • Bina Technologies (acquired by Roche)12

Approach and Philosophy

Safa is known for:

  1. Focusing on market-driven investments and consumer value propositions
  2. Conducting extensive market research and analysis
  3. Supporting portfolio companies to reach their next funding milestones
  4. Providing strategic guidance, introductions, and market research to portfolio companies1

Safa Rashtchy's LinkedIn profile (username: safa-rashtchy-7810691) describes him as "Founding Managing Partner at Think + Ventures, looking for entrepreneurs who never give up. Writing about founders, startups, technology, seedfunding, and venture capital".4

Highlights

May 7 · linkedin

It had to happen: Our first NASDAQ IPO (backed by Nvidia and Uber). Was very happy to join the Serve team during the Closing Bell ceremony at NASDAQ last week (I even had a moment of fame when the photographer decided to put me on the big screen in Times Square!)

#ipos #vcfunding #startupfunding #robotics #techs #genai #vcfunding #nasdaq #ai #techfounders #Nvidia #uber #Think+ #Delivery

Feb 27 · linkedin

Five Key Takeaways for Startups from our Gen AI Panel  

  1. Open-source LLMs are rapidly gaining share and transforming the landscape of Generative AI.

  2. Access to large amounts of data gives the major enterprises and incumbent companies an advantage over start-ups.

  3. Look for innovation on small LLM, on the edge, and especially on mobile devices. Apple is the dark horse here.

  4. Agents and Large Action Models are potential ways to link a Gen AI model to actual transactions.

  5. Start-ups can leverage tools such as chain prompting, RAG, function calling, and agents to develop agile and task-specific models.

#genai #startupfunding #vcfunding #aiagents #ai #techfounders #ai

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Location

Palo Alto, California, United States