2018年10月5日

资深风险投资家Shirish Sathaye已悄然加入早期投资者Cervin公司作为普通合伙人。最近,Sathaye普通合伙人形成8,四面楚歌的风险投资公司共同创立Palantir的乔·朗斯代尔,布莱恩古永锵(辜氏家族的子孙,所有者的电子巨头LG)和前斯拉GP吉姆金。形成8在2015年宣布它不会提高三分之一的基金,将开始逐步结束操作。Sathaye,谁在VC业务自2001年以来,作为一个医生在经纬,在科斯拉风险投资公司,在形成8大二基金仍然是一个伙伴。他以前的投资包括Nutanix Samsung-acquired茅,McAfee-acquired Solidcore系统、网络安全启动威达提供者Panzura网络和数据存储。Sathaye,他已经厌倦了“越大越好”的心态,选择离开大风险的业务。他开始做天使投资,建议在Cervin投资创业,项目前期一个风投基金专注于企业。它在2017年关闭了一个5600万美元的基金,其最大的车辆。“规模较小的基金,一般来说,做出更好的决策,”Sathaye TechCrunch说。“在一个更大的基金,有更多的人围着桌子做决定。 I think returns are better when there are fewer people making those decisions.” Watching funds swell past the billion-dollar mark and investors deploy the “spray and pray” strategy was a turn-off, Sathaye said. Startups have more access to capital than ever before, yet most companies can get off the ground with very little funding, thanks to recent innovations like Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. “With AWS, companies can bring products to market quickly and they can reach their customers with much less money,” Sathaye said. “If you look at it just from a returns profile, the smaller funds will get better cash-on-cash returns simply because companies don’t need that much money to be successful.” Palo Alto-based Cervin is led by two other GPs, Preetish Nijhawan and Neeraj Gupta. It invests $1 million to $2 million in early-stage startups. Sathaye says he’ll be focused specifically on the security, mobile, cloud and data verticals.