Akshay Mehra
@akshay__mehra
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in search of the unconventional @hummingbirdvc
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Joined January 2010
Aspora (fka Vance) just announced their total raise of $93m across seed + series A/B. Welcome to new partners @sequoia @GreylockVC What a privilege it's been to work with Parth and co. We've been fortunate to be partners since Day 1 and we're confident the best is yet to come.
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Wrote about slop, reclaiming attention, and escaping the algorithm. Link in comments/bio And yes, the irony of posting this on X is not lost on me :)
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This emphasis on exploration + focusing on founders stumbling upon ideas is what makes @gradcapital so great. The comfort with ambiguity. It’s a subtle but underrated mindset shift away from the top-down worldview most investors lead with @prateekbehera96 @abhisheksethi96
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Thesis-driven investors are great as it shows intent and focus in an area, which founders naturally appreciate. But investors who anchor their investment decision on founders are less anxious through the ups and downs/pivots (if any) in a startup's journey.
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From @bpoppenheimer's newsletter (check it out if you haven't). A reminder that early work looks like a derivative, but turns into something original only if treated as a craft / infinite game.
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Let me just get this straight: Hummingbird owned 16% of BillionToOne at IPO. That is an $800M stake. This was their first ever biotech deal. These guys just play another game!!
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Great to be on with @somani_utsav @dhruvsharma_in 🙏
When most VCs “spray and pray,” @HummingbirdVC bets with precision. 🎯 - 3–5 global investments/year - $500K–$20M checks (pre-seed to Series B) - 100% follow-on rate Our mantra: Patience > hype, conviction > volume. Obsessed with founders, not just markets - @akshay__mehra
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An excellent piece from @nchirls on courage being the last true differentiator in venture. https://t.co/vE8LHtWdmk
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"Heavy company", or what I like to think of as durability. Durability comes from operating a culture of mistake optimisation: taking bets while keeping the ones with asymmetric upside. Knowing the future is written in pencil, not pen, and fueling paranoia to continuously layer
Absolutely love this bit from Jeff Bezos. The simplest explanation on building a business and being founder. 🎯 "Benjamin Graham the great investor is famous for saying in the short term the stock market is a voting machine in the long term it's a weighing machine and so as
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Congrats to @viswacolluru and the rest of the team at @lifeschemistry! Amazing milestone and we're excited to be on this journey w you @HummingbirdVC
Biotech’s latest unicorn Enveda want to use AI to scour thousands of plants for potential medicinal breakthroughs
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I suddenly hear and see the word "taste" everywhere. Not sure if it’s frequency illusion, the tech/VC echo chamber recycling itself, or if the word’s actually having a cultural moment. Maybe all of the above...
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Huge milestone for @get_aspora as they launch in the US today! Already live in the UK/UAE/Europe, this next step into the US is huge for them as they build out a global fintech co. Congrats to Parth and team on incredible execution!
Arrival takes more than just a visa. 🌎 Some arrive with ambition, some with purpose, but almost all are backed by thousands of dreams - the American Dream. 600,000 NRIs worldwide built us. Now, we’re here to build for the largest Indian diaspora in the world. Aspora has
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Why falling in love with TAM or a business model at seed/A isn't effective. There are too many twists, turns, and unpredictable shifts along the way. The only constant variable that navigates through the uncertainty to build "modelbusters" is the quality of the team.
What do Roblox, Anduril, CrowdStrike and Apple all have in common? None of them looked like obvious winners from the start. But they built something far bigger than anyone expected. We call these companies Modelbusters. Modelbusters either reveal a market that’s much larger
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E‑commerce is moving from pixels to pipes. Agents using MCPs will route purchases; merchants who tuned for Google's algo will now look to Claude's reasoning. SEO’s role shrinks - the edge comes from structured data quality, reliable APIs, live inventory, and accurate ETAs.
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Bumping this up: Here are Zimbabwe's stock market returns for the last 5 years: 2019: 57% 2020: 103% 2021: 312% 2022: 87% 2023: 449% 2024: 903% (ZWL currency) One would think Zimbabwe is the new bastion for growth and innovation in the world after looking at these
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It’s been a pleasure working with @antonosika, @FabianHedin and team @lovable_dev as their very first investor. At @HummingbirdVC, we’re thrilled to continue our support in this latest $200M fundraise at a $1.8bn valuation led by Accel.
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Public market performance and growth for large tech co's (NVDA, Oracle, MSFT, etc) completely challenge the outdated assumption of flat or declining terminal growth rates in DCF models.
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The beauty of generalist investment firms. “Colleagues who have a fixed sector focus, in contrast, have a short-term competency dynamo (being the most experienced in a sector or niche), but ultimately, they seem unhappy 20 years later, retiring from venture regardless of their
Today is the 30-year anniversary of my venture capital career. My younger self would have found that hard to fathom. Reflecting back, there was a simple algorithm embedded in my investment strategy that has made it all the more exciting and engaging over time — I look for
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