Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

La Familia VC Judith Dada’s journey as an investor from a curator lens

20 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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In this interview, host Speaker A asks Judith Dada to reflect on her investment career through the lens of a curator. Dada describes the curator role as a service that helps founders by selecting, supporting, and showcasing the best talent she backs. She highlights a emerging trend where venture funds are shifting from purely human‑driven services toward productized offerings that can be packaged and scaled, allowing the value delivered to founders to be more systematic and less dependent on individual relationships. The conversation frames portfolio building as a curatorial practice, emphasizing the importance of intentional selection and the future scalability of venture support.

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What, like, one of the pieces that I read recently was my friend Gabby Goldberg. We had her on the podcast earlier, but she talked about curators being the new creators. So I'm curious how you think about your journey as an investor, maybe from the curator lens, 'cause you're building a portfolio of companies that represent, you know, the, the best founders that you've had an opportunity to back. So I'm curious how you think about like your role as a curator, and that can be like in or out of startups, but I'm curious.
Yeah, so I think it's a really interesting question because, you know, I think there's a couple of things that come to mind there. I think curator is a great way of describing the service that we bring to founders. I think one of the trends in the future is venture funds turning more and more into actual products, and the difference between a service and a product kind of being the more scalable nature of how you can package and scale, you know, kind of the value that you're bringing to customers without, you know, associating that to the human service that's required to deliver that.