Andreea Zurek

Jeff Clavier explains how angel investors can size their risk, set an investment budget, and build a diversified portfolio across time, sectors, stages, and companies. He emphasizes that startup investing is risky and slow, so investors should only commit money they can afford to lose and should define their strategy before deal flow picks up. Andreea Zurek discusses building a reputation through consistent behavior, integrity, clear focus, and useful support for founders. She describes how XG Ventures drew on its founders’ Google experience and developed its own identity, while both speakers share lessons from missed deals, portfolio choices, and early investing mistakes.