27. Venture Capital 101

In today's episode we sit down with Camilo Acosta, founder & general partner of Perceptive Ventures, an early stage venture firm, and walk through everything you want to know about Venture Capital (“VC”). We cover differences between Angel Investing vs. VC, what a company needs for different series rounds (pre-seed, seed, series A, series B and beyond), how venture capital differs from Growth Equity, what it takes to get into the Venture Capital world, and much much more.Camilo Acosta is the founder & general partner of Perceptive Ventures, an early stage venture firm focused on AI-first investments across the U.S. and Latin America. Prior to founding Perceptive, he built generative AI products at Meta used by millions of people. Before Meta, he built a machine learning based payments company that partnered with businesses worldwide before it was acquired in 2020. He holds a BA from Princeton University, and is based in San Francisco, California.  You can follow him on Twitter @camilobacostaThe  Funds4Teachers event is happening the dates below:Locations/DatesAtlanta - Apr 25Boston - June 6Chicago - June 18New York - Sep 26To learn more about how to support this initiative and register click here: https://iconnections.io/funds4teachers/Follow us on Instagram and Tik Tok at @thewallstreetskinnyhttps://www.instagram.com/thewallstreetskinny/