Insights and Innovations: Exploring Stage 2 Capital's Investment Strategy and AI Frontiers ft Anubhav Maheshwari

Anubhav Maheshwari is a Partner at Stage 2 Capital. Anu started his career as an Analyst in Morgan Stanley's Global Technology Investment Banking group advising both private and public technology companies on M&A, IPOs and other capital markets financings. While always at the intersection of technology and finance, Anu has moved to progressively earlier stages with time. After Morgan Stanley, Anu was an investor at ICONIQ Growth where he focused on Series B and later growth investments in software, fintech, and consumer startups. As you can likely extrapolate, the next step in the journey has been joining Stage 2 Capital and investing in Seed and Series A stage B2B startups. Anu is a long-time Chelsea FC fan, novice electronic music producer, slightly better guitarist, and maybe too serious a board game player (Catan, anyone?). Topic: - Lessons from Growth Stage Investing Applied to Early Stage - Go-to-Market AI - Unique Approach to Deal Sourcing 🍎 Apple: http://apple.co/3d6bGea 🎤Spotify: http://bit.ly/gracegong 💻Website: http://smartventurepod.com 🍿YouTube: https://bit.ly/gracegongyoutube 📰 Newsletter: https://bit.ly/421p8tJ 🔥TikTok: http://bit.ly/3IMfbK9 👏LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/3Xs8GQP ❤️IG: http://bit.ly/3kfBWMs 💡Twitter: http://bit.ly/3GwyeWc ___________________________________________________ Grace Gong hosts a top VC podcast called "Smart Venture Podcast" (SVPpro.com). Past guests include C-level and VP executives from Google, Meta, Amazon, and others; Managing Partners of leading funds, many of whom were featured on the Forbes Midas List; and unicorn founders such as the founders of Craigslist, Square, Loom, and Cruise. Prior to this, Grace worked in venture capital and private equity. She has authored books that topped the New Release in Venture Capital category on Amazon. Additionally, she is a LinkedIn Top Voice in Finance and is an angel investor.