If the music stops, what startup gets a chair? Renegade Partners' co-founders are finding out

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Renegade Ventures co-founders Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek have seen it all in their careers — notably over the past four years when they launched their first fund as the COVID pandemic took hold and navigated the economic roller coaster that followed. Now, with a second $128 million fund — and a plan to write checks of up to $10 million into 20 startups — Quintini and Wincek join TechCrunch editor Kirsten Korosec on Equity to discuss those early days of their first fund, what they look for in a startup and what’s driving the shift away from megafunds.

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0:15.8	Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Crunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups. I'm Kirsten Kaurasek and this is our Wednesday
0:19.6	episode where we hone in on a trend in the startup world and dive deep.
0:24.0	Today we are talking to Renegade Partners, co-founders, and Managing Directors,
0:29.0	Renata Quintini, and Roseanne Winsack.
0:32.0	Renata and Roseanne, welcome to the show.
0:35.0	Thanks for having us, Pearson.
0:36.1	Great to be here.
0:36.9	Yes, thank you, thank you.
0:39.0	I was reflecting on your history a little bit
0:41.1	when I was preparing for this.
0:42.7	And Renegade Partners, I think was, let's say,
0:45.8	outed in the press around September 2019.
0:48.7	And then the fund closed in March 2020. And what a bit of a crazy time to be trying to close a fun.
0:59.6	What was that like?
1:00.6	I mean I even I get this like visceral reaction in my body just even thinking about that time. We had obviously been fundraising and working towards this close for a while but it was that last week in March where things kind of you know started to get weird and
1:13.6	funny and we're like should we be flying what's going on I remember I live in San Francisco
1:17.9	but I lived in a place where I could see the bay and I was on the phone with an
1:21.2	LP and there was that like that princess cruise that was getting towed in.
1:25.6	Remember there was that like COVID boat that like wasn't allowed to dock and it was getting towed in with like a
1:30.0	Coast Guard escort and all these like sirens and I I just remember like texting
1:34.0	Renata like a picture while I'm on the phone with an LP just being like right like
1:37.9	docs are coming in right like you're gonna you're gonna close all the legal is good and
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