Invest with Makai VC
$109.8k
Typical Investments
10
Expected Deals/Year
91
Unique LPs have invested
Note from Makai VC
About Us
We are a team of entrepreneurs, investors, and advisors experienced in business strategy, corporate and business development including M&A, sales, marketing and partnerships as well as finance, legal and technology / product development.
We have spent over 25 years across the tech & media landscape in hardware, software, online media (content, digital advertising, social media) and e-commerce, starting and growing both venture capital financed and organically grown (bootstrapped) ventures. We've raised venture capital at multiple stages as well as large (circa $50MM) syndicated debt deals for growth and acquisitions.
Specialties: Start-ups & Development-Stage Companies, Business Development, Sales, Corporate Development, M&A, E-Commerce, Product Development, Internet Applications and Online Media, Film and Television (distribution and marketing), Social Media, Venture Financing (equity and debt), Business Strategy.
Our team has built multiple companies, both bootstrapped and venture backed. We have also invested in over 400 companies in angel rounds, syndicates and traditional venture rounds, many of which have gone on to raise substantial follow-on financings. Our deals have seen 25 +acquisitions, 10+ public listings (IPO, Direct, SPAC), 100+ companies that have valuations over $100MM and 10+ companies with valuations currently exceeding $1B. Along the way, a few have shut down and some have been acquired at a material discount... but such is the nature of early-stage investing.
Primary Investment Targets: We primarily focus in consumer internet, mobile, digital media, entertainment, consumer products, e-commerce, health care tech, finance tech and fitness.
We are enthusiastic supporters and fans of AngelList and Syndicates. Our team members are active with several of the top syndicates and have participated in well over 300 raises via Syndicates.
We appreciate your willingness and desire to back Makai VC. The deals we syndicate will generally have
- Strong founders/management;
- Massive markets with attainable TAM targets;
- Either strong initial traction and revenue growth, or a distinct plan to achieve this;
Additionally, we love to find businesses that have:
- Life changing potential - the way in which the company's product or service fundamentally changes how we do things;
- Defensive moat - not usually solely a '1st mover' advantage, but some other 'unfair advantage;
- Super simple value proposition - not complex or hard for even the uninitiated to understand or recognize;
- Great brand value or 'hook' - a function of the company's identity that sets it apart from any current and future competitors
As a team of serial entrepreneurs and multiple active angel investors, we have seen the good, the bad and the ugly. Obviously, it's clear where we prefer to spend time (and invest money)!
Take a look at our portfolio (on my profile at: https://angel.co/brandon-calder) to see for yourself the types of deals we do.
As a Syndicate backer, whether it is our syndicate or others', please remember that early stage investing is an absolute risk game. This means you should never invest more in any syndicate deal, including within Makai VC, than you are willing to lose entirely. However, we also believe that by making a large number of great investments (as opposed to trying to pick a very small number of potentially massive deals), you stand the best chance to succeed.
Dealflow
We will try to syndicate all deals for which we have secured a sizeable allocation and where the founders support AngelList Syndicates for their fundraising.
