20VC: Why Fund Sizes Should Be Smaller, Should Founders Also Have Their Own Funds, Is Emerging Markets Investing Gone, Is Fintech Investing Dead & Who Will Be The Winners and Losers in VC in the Next 10 Years with Sheel Mohnot, Co-Founder @ BTV

Sheel Mohnot is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Better Tomorrow Ventures, a $225M fund that leads rounds in pre-seed and seed-stage fintech companies globally. Sheel and Jake (his co-founder) invested for many years together before founding BTV and wrote checks into Mercury, Flexport, Ramp, and Hippo Insurance to name a few. As for Sheel, before BTV he ran 500 Fintech for close to 7 years, and before that was a founder, founding two companies, both of which were acquired.

In Today’s Episode with Sheel Mohnot We Discuss:

1. VC Needs to Change:

• Why does Sheel believe that VCs should have smaller funds?

• What are the biggest misalignments between founders and VCs today?

• What are the biggest points of friction between VCs and their LPs today?

2. VC in 10 Years Time:

• Who are going to be the winners in venture in 10 years time?

• Who are going to be the losers?

• Will micro-funds be bigger or smaller as a segment of the ecosystem?

• Will solo-GPs be bigger or smaller? Were they a zero-interest rate phenomenon?

3. The Errors of a Bull Market:

• What does Sheel believe are the single biggest mistakes made by VCs between 2020-2022?

• Did Sheel take liquidity off the table in the last few years? What have been some of his biggest lessons on when to sell?

• How does Sheel evaluate the flood of capital into emerging markets in the bull market? What happens now?

• Fintech is also experiencing the same challenging time, how does Sheel assess what is happening in the fintech financing market today?

4. Building a Fund: Lessons, Mistakes and Advice Scaling to $225M:

• What are the single biggest mistakes Sheel and Jake have made in the fun scaling? How has it impacted their mindset?

• What does Sheel know now about fund management that he wishes he had known at the beginning?

• What advice does Sheel give to emerging managers today, raising their first and second funds?