Arthen Sirola-Hashemi - investment manager at Karma Ventures | Nothing Ventured Podcast S01E19

Arthen Sirola-Hashemi is an investment manager at Karma Ventures. Karma Ventures (karma.vc) is an early-stage venture capital firm, specialising in late seed and A-round investments in Europe’s most promising tech startups.

👂 Listen to the Primer Episode here - https://youtu.be/660PuKw9Pds

🕒 Time stamps -

2:13 - What did Arthen have to unlearn when he joined the world of investing?

5:32 - Going from operations to investing, what skills did you bring over?

7:17 - How does Arthen think about finance?

13:30 - How does Arthen weigh up what is a good or bad investment?

15:54 - What is the VC / tech industry like in the Nordics?

20:31 - Why do more fintech products come out of the Nordics?

25:03 - Does money or ideas attract talent?

30:24 - Why having too much capital can cause businesses to be less innovative.

44:48 - Where's the best place to find Arthen online?

🔗 Arthen Sirola-Hashemi's links -

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthensadr-hashemi?originalSubdomain=uk

Twitter - https://twitter.com/ArthenSH

Web - https://www.karma.vc/