Narayan Chowdhury

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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

 
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