Ertan Can is the Founder of Multiple Capital, a fund of funds focused on investing in micro VC funds in Europe and has been a limited partner in top funds you’ve heard of including Entrepreneur First and Angular Ventures, just to name a few. He’s done his tour of duty in the asset management world at JP Morgan to covering investor relations topics at Thomson Reuters to investing in startups at a family office. Ertan is also a founding member of 2hearts, a community dedicated to building tomorrow’s tech society with cultural diversity.
He is also a proud MBA graduate from the ESCP Business School and a long time student of finance and law catalyzed by his time at Frankfurt and London.
You can find Ertan on his socials here:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rtancan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ertancan/
And huge thanks to this episode’s sponsor, Alchemist Accelerator: https://alchemistaccelerator.com/superclusters
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[00:00] Intro
[02:21] Ertan’s childhood
[05:36] Why Luxembourg?
[15:03] Which countries do European GPs set up their funds?
[19:46] How did Ertan switch the family office strategy from direct to fund investing?
[24:42] How has Ertan’s underwriting process evolved over time?
[28:04] Do similar pitch deck formats make it easier or harder to make investment decisions?
[30:34] Referrals and warm intros ranked by source
[36:10] Geographies that Multiple Capital invests in
[37:44] Red flags for Multiple Capital
[43:48] How do solo GPs build sounding boards to check their blindside?
[49:04] The (un)predictability of outlier investments
[1:00:41] How does Ertan think about bringing on Venture Partners in a fund of funds?
[1:08:25] The decision-making framework behind an “angel” LP investment and a FoF check
[1:12:01] Where Ertan shares his unfiltered thoughts
[1:20:14] Ertan’s experience around giving GPs feedback
[1:27:05] Cockroaches and superheroes
[1:34:08] Thank you to Alchemist Accelerator for sponsoring!
[1:36:44] If you enjoyed this episode, it would mean the world to us if you gave us a like, comment, or share!
SELECT LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:
- Multiple Capital
- JP Morgan
- Thomson Reuters
- Entrepreneur First
- Angular Ventures
- ESCP Business School
- Elad Gil
- Oren Zeev
- Kyber Knight Capital
- UiPath
- Shopify
- Spotify
- Canva
- Melanie Perkins
- Michael Jackson (investor)
- Kauffman Fellows
- Ertan’s Fundraising #14
- Ertan’s Fundraising #9 – The math behind how returns compound (Ertan’s favorite tweet)
- Ertan’s superhero vs cockroach tweet
SELECT QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“Our work is to increase the probability of having some of the outliers as early as possible in as small as possible funds because like a fund, that will lead to a power law in our portfolio.” – Ertan Can
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