Faran Nouri discussed the challenges of setting up Lam Capital in a time when there were few resources on best practices and revealed how data and AI was disrupting her corporate parent's industry.
Julia Samoylenko of software producer Proseeder interviewed Faran Nouri, managing director of Lam Capital, the investment vehicle of semiconductor processing equipment company Lam Research. Nouri explained to the audience how the venturing unit she headed was structured: “We invest from the balance sheet but we are a separate limited liability company and run like an evergreen fund.”
She also shared Lam Capital’s approach to finding potential investment: ”In the beginning, we wanted to get access to deal flow, so we…