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On this week’s show, we spoke with Fahd Ananta, Investor @ Roach Capital Fahd is an investor at Roach Capital, a firm he founded. After founding and selling his own Canadian tech companies and spending years working as a product lead at major tech firms like Shopify and Snap — the company behind Snapchat — Ananta launched Roach Capital in 2019.  Roach represents a continuation of Ananta’s angel investment efforts, which involved providing startups with early capital and helping them with product strategy. Additionally, he says the early-stage fund has an opportunity to put portfolio companies “on the radar” of some of its larger and better capitalized VC investors. Prior to launching Roach Capital, Ananta co-founded a pair of Toronto-based startups: Chime, a notification aggregator and calendar app that was acquired by HubSpot in 2013 and Tab Payments, a restaurant curation, reservation, and payments app that was acquired by United Kingdom-based Velocity in 2015.   On the show, we spoke about:   His path to becoming an investor Why he started Roach Capital  Difference between good and great products Providing guidance to founders What it takes to succeed in a startup   Subscribe |  iTunes |  Google Play |Spotify |  YouTube | Stitcher |

On this week’s show, we spoke with <a href="https://twitter.com/fahdananta" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fahd Ananta</a>, Investor @ <a href="https://roachcap.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roach Capital</a> Fahd is an investor at Roach Capital, a firm he founded. After founding and selling his own Canadian tech companies and spending years working as a product lead at major tech firms like Shopify and Snap — the company behind Snapchat — Ananta launched Roach Capital in 2019.  Roach represents a continuation of Ananta’s angel investment efforts, which involved providing startups with early capital and helping them with product strategy. Additionally, he says the early-stage fund has an opportunity to put portfolio companies “on the radar” of some of its larger and better capitalized VC investors. Prior to launching Roach Capital, Ananta co-founded a pair of Toronto-based startups: Chime, a notification aggregator and calendar app that was acquired by HubSpot in 2013 and Tab Payments, a restaurant curation, reservation, and payments app that was acquired by United Kingdom-based Velocity in 2015. On the show, we spoke about:  <ul> <li>His path to becoming an investor</li> <li>Why he started Roach Capital </li> <li>Difference between good and great products</li> <li>Providing guidance to founders</li> <li>What it takes to succeed in a startup</li> </ul> Subscribe | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/point-of-no-return-podcast/id1160536476?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> iTunes</a> | <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9wbnJwb2RjYXN0LmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Google Play</a> |<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4c48AlN1hJbQmN7FHPN8vJ?si=nSBgZjtbTV-jANsaz-7ilQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf0gXyZXPdWcHEtYEiG0pYw?view_as=subscriber" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> YouTube</a> | <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=185161&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a> |

Backing unassailable founders with Fahd Ananta, Investor @ Roach Capital | EP#234

Roach Capital is an investment firm focused on early-stage internet companies. In this episode, we discuss Fahd’s investing style, how he vets investments and find out why he is obsessed with roaches.  Check out Roach Capital's website to learn more!

Roach Capital is an investment firm focused on early-stage internet companies. In this episode, we discuss Fahd’s investing style, how he vets investments and find out why he is obsessed with roaches.  Check out Roach Capital's <a href="https://roachcap.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a> to learn more!

Fahd Ananta from Roach Capital

Angel Season 6 is all about first-time fund managers. Fahd Ananta of Roach Capital joined to discuss his path from founder to PM to VC	(04:07). You will learn:1. How Fahd got Angel investing at Shopify2. How Fahd made the transition from Angel investing to raising a fund3. How geography can be used as a differentiator4. The way he used his product skill to get on competitive cap tablesThen in our OK Boomer segment, Producer Rachel talks to John Herrick, the CTO of Dive Chat, a new messaging and event app	(34:09).

Angel Season 6 is all about first-time fund managers. Fahd Ananta of Roach Capital joined to discuss his path from founder to PM to VC	(04:07). You will learn: 1. How Fahd got Angel investing at Shopify 2. How Fahd made the transition from Angel investing to raising a fund 3. How geography can be used as a differentiator 4. The way he used his product skill to get on competitive cap tables Then in our OK Boomer segment, Producer Rachel talks to John Herrick, the CTO of Dive Chat, a new messaging and event app	(34:09).