LA Venture Podcast

EPISODE 156

Raj Ganguly — B Capital

July 20, 2022

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Series A
Series B

B Capital has rapidly grown to over $6B AUM and has just announced its first early-stage fund, the $250M Ascent Fund run by a superstar team that includes Eduardo Saverin, Gabe Greenbaum, Karen Page, Karan Mohla, and Howard Morgan.

Raj says B Capital was not an overnight success but was built steadily on the conviction that there needed to be a firm that could be best in class on value-add and also global from the outset.

Full transcript

Today I have Raj Ganguly with me. Raj is the co-founder of B Capital, a global multistage venture fund that he built with Eduardo Saverin and Howard Morgan. B Capital has grown extremely rapidly and I believe may now be LA’s largest venture fund.  

So, let's start with where you are now with your funds and with B Capital's growth.

We started off as a growth fund in late 2015, early 2016. We added a venture fund that was our own money initially, and then my absolutely awesome co-founder Howard Morian decided to run it with Gabe Greenbaum and Karen Page. And so we now do venture, we do growth and the latest funds have taken us across 5 billion AUM right now. 

But I have to be honest, that's never really been our focus, I think at the end of the day this is a pretty simple business--you try to back the best founders and be a little bit helpful to them. And we've now backed about 130 founders over the last five and a half years.