Raj Ganguly
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- Milken Institute54 min
The Future of Venture Capital: AI, IPOs, and Tech Investment | Global Conference 2025
Romaine Bostick, Raj Ganguly, Amir Husain, Dana Settle, Hemant Taneja
Venture capital leaders from B Capital, General Catalyst, and Greycroft discuss a strategic pivot away from the stalled IPO market toward inorganic growth and M&A as primary exit routes. The panel emphasizes that firms must evolve into "AI-native" entities to navigate geopolitical supply chain shifts and address liquidity constraints for the "long tail" of private companies. With a focus on deep industry transformation over application-layer speculation, investors are prioritizing technically elite founders capable of driving efficiency in hardware, robotics, and healthcare sectors.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining: Venture Capitalists Bring to Bear | Global Conference 2024
Leon Kalvaria, Christopher Darby, Raj Ganguly, Elad Gil, Courtney McCrea, Mohsin Tanveer Pirzada, Mohsin Farzad, Chris Darby
Industry leaders convened to analyze the global venture capital contraction, highlighting a sharp divergence between the capital-scarce US market and the 30% annual growth driving Middle Eastern funds like the Qatar Investment Authority. The panel advised that surviving the current interest rate environment requires a strategic pivot toward profitability, national security-aligned technologies, and disciplined unit economics over unchecked growth metrics. With consensus predicting a market reset in 2025, experts emphasized that future success will depend on emerging managers demonstrating minimum viable size, embracing regulatory backstops, and leveraging the AI spending wave while avoiding overvaluation traps.