By Carey Lai, Robin Chan and Veda Patel Getting into one’s dream college can often be a life-changing event. But the college admissions process has become increasingly competitive and stress-inducing, leaving many students and their parents feeling helpless. College admissions counseling has long existed to help...
By Carey Lai With the Federal Funds rate having gone from 0% in February 2022 to 5.25% today, gone are the days when capital no longer has a cost. In an elevated interest rate environment, VCs and CEOs alike have now shifted from a “growth at...
After a CEO finds product-market fit, the inevitable question he or she asks is, “How fast do I grow to raise my next round?” It isn’t a simple question. Unfortunately, the venture community creates oversimplified benchmarks around minimum revenue growth rates of 2x, 3x or,...
Doubling Down On Capital Efficient Non-traditional Entrepreneurs By Carey Lai and Paul Yeh We are both excited and humbled to announce our oversubscribed $200M Fund III, which brings total assets under management to $450 million. When we first launched Conductive Ventures in 2017, we had a vision...
How did we first meet? We first met Steven Jiang, Founder & CEO of HireEZ, over a bowl of Vietnamese Pho soup noodles during the summer of 2021. We were initially impressed by his scale and growth. I couldn’t believe I had never come across this...
“We’d like to hire you!” – Being recruited for a role is a great feeling, until you get the same message from every recruiter and it starts to feel like white noise. A good friend who’s a DevOps engineer told me that he receives one...
We are deeply saddened by the passing of our advisor, mentor, and friend, Ryan Popple. Ryan always puts others before himself. Having served his country as an Army officer, then choosing an altruistic career path in clean energy, in order to make the planet a better...
We couldn’t be more excited to announce the launch of Conductive Ventures II. The $150 million fund represents a 50% increase over Fund I. Our team and investment strategy remain the same where we aim to invest in entrepreneurs building enterprise software and hardware companies...
On January 24, 1848 gold was discovered in California. Immediately after, word of the Gold Rush had spread around the world. Prospectors and merchants began to arrive, ushering in the era of the Forty-Niners (49ers). What’s more interesting about the Gold Rush was the attitude...