Narayan Chowdhury

Franklin Park, Managing Director

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Career Highlights

• Co-founding Franklin Park in 2003, grown to $18B AUM

• Early in the market identifying key seed investors like First Round Capital

• Built our technology stack at FP

• Built our venture practice at FP – strong 13-year track record

• Building and releasing mobile apps for fun and education

• Mentoring new professionals about how enlivening venture capital can be

Failures

• Failing to invest in some great first gen-seed investors that we knew would be amazing

• Partial fail in how we allocated in NYC (did RRE, passed on FirstMark and Primary)

• Finding a good but not great development partner for our custom software

Current Focus

• Transitioning our technology backend to the cloud and introducing scaleup-out benefits

• Thinking about AI-enhanced investment use cases

• Investigating the Toronto/Waterloo venture market

• Contemplating China’s venture market

Hobbies

NHL, Playing ice hockey as an older adult, Math and science in the news, The Bear

Talk to me about

• Developing a marketing culture with zero marketing DNA

• Working with family offices vs. our historic large institutional base

• Biotech in the Mid-Atlantic and how I can help

I want to talk to you about

• Microsoft Power Platform and various AI frameworks

• Startup ideas and how I can help