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Omni Talk Podcast: Investor Perspectives on Retail & The Consumer Aug 26, 2025

https://youtu.be/dXvHEuX4hjM

"The Brutal Truth About Raising Your First Investment Fund" 

Recorded August 2025

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Newsletter #19: An Interview with the Founder of ZEYA Aug 19, 2025

Aimee LeMaire is the founder and CEO of ZEYA, an innovative home fragrance system that launched in Target stores and online in April 2025.  Below is the transcript of an interview that Aimee had with ...

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Newsletter #18: Increasing Rates of Change, Creative Destruction, And The Venture Response Jul 21, 2025

Jeff Bezos has been quoted as saying “if anything, the rate of change is accelerating.”  This sentiment is not unique to him: James Clerk Maxwell had a similar quote in the 1860s, Ray Kurzweil in 2021...

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Partnering with Kokada: Redefining Indulgence with Naturally Low Sugar Snacking & Spreads Jun 10, 2025

With 72% of consumers shifting to naturally low sugar options (according to a Mintel 2025 report), Kokada saw an opportunity to serve a growing cohort of customers back in 2020. Jared and Breanna, a h...

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Newsletter #17: An Interview with the Semaine Health Co-Founders Jun 10, 2025

The market for women’s health supplements in the United States is big and growing rapidly.  Unsurprisingly, many new entrants have been attracted to the category, but relatively few have clinical proo...

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Newsletter #16: An Interview with the Cohere Commerce Co-Founders May 07, 2025

Any retail merchant overseeing a consumer packaged goods (CPG) category will tell you that they are always on the hunt for the best emerging brands to bring into their assortment.  They will also tell...

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Announcing the Final Close of Ocampo Capital Fund I LP Apr 02, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ocampo Capital LLC Announces Successful Close of Ocampo Capital Fund I LP, an Early-Stage Consumer Venture Fund

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA– April 2nd, 2025 – Ocampo Capital LLC, an ...

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Newsletter #14: Startups Need Great Capital Allocators Too Mar 20, 2025

In fall of the year 2000 I was a young J.P. Morgan associate, sitting in the conference room at the  Greenwich, Connecticut headquarters of a leading private equity firm.  The CFO of the firm walked i...

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Newsletter 13: Luck Versus Skill Feb 07, 2025

One definition of luck is: “a chance occurrence, out of one’s control and unpredictable.”  On the other hand, skill therefore could be defined as “driving predictable outcomes based on intervention.” ...

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Newsletter 12: The Legacy of Sand Hill Road Dec 11, 2024

I grew up in Menlo Park, California, just over a mile from the heart of the venture capital industry.  Passing the low-lying, set back, non-descript office buildings along Sand Hill Road - which conne...

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Newsletter 11: An Interview with a Persephone Biosciences Co-Founder Oct 20, 2024

Nearly 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates stated, “all disease begins in the gut.”  Fast forward to today, we now know that the human gut microbiome contains most of our DNA, it ...

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