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Invest with Zach Coelius
Back Syndicate View Coelius Capital Rolling Fund
$279.1k
Typical Investments
5
Deals Last 12 Months
1946
Unique LPs have invested
Note from Zach Coelius

User Manual for the syndicate with aggregate returns

My Rolling Fund

I invest in three types of deals. The first group are founders I know well; in this business founders are everything. I am very comfortable backing superstars based on little more then their involvement (though that rarely happens as they almost always have a great idea.)

The second group is comprised of companies in sectors where I have a great deal of experience such as ad tech, marketing, email, enterprise saas, some consumer tech and data. I look hard for original, defensible ideas that have the potential to become huge. I would rather lose on a bunch of companies than to miss out on one of the big ones. This is a business of swinging for home runs and being comfortable with striking out. Cruise Automation is a great example of this strategy. When we invested in Cruise a lot of folks thought it was a weird investment; six months later it was sold to GM for a billion dollars. Also, one of the greatest advantages of AngelList is that it enables significant diversification to have a better chance of getting into one of the winners. I don't consider myself an index investor (in the public markets I had a 30.9% IRR over the seven years I was active), but I love the value of smart diversification.

The third type is where I can spend a great deal of time with the entrepreneur and build a longitudinal understanding of them as individuals and the dynamic of their markets. As Mark Suster correctly points out, it is much easier to invest in lines vs dots.

Here are a couple podcasts where I discuss my investment thesis and approach:

The Full Ratchet

Angel by Jason Calacanis

The Syndicate

The 20 Minute VC

Dealflow

As a ten year startup CEO I built a very large network of founders, angels, VCs and friends. All of my deal flow comes from those relationships.

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Zach Coelius
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Investments
HelloSign, A Dropbox Company
Branch
Cruise
SkySafe
Apprente
Lyte
OneSignal
Loom.ai
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Zach Coelius is a supervised person of or otherwise affiliated with ZC Advisor, LLC, an “Exempt Reporting Adviser” under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Important information regarding ZC Advisor, LLC, CRD Number 291811, can be found on its Form ADV available  here. Zach Coelius’s relationship with ZC Advisor, LLC may give rise to potential conflicts of interest or conflicting duties, which could materially impact the performance any deals led by this syndicate.
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