Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut: The Next Great Mobile Company Is Not Here Yet
September 03, 2010 at 14:58 PM EDT
Aydin Senkut , founder of Felicis Ventures , has an enviable track record. Founded in late 2005, Felicis has made roughly 60 investments, with 16 successful exits, including Mint , Tapulous and Aardvark . As anyone in the investment community will tell you, that's not a shabby hit rate. Senkut, a former senior manager at Google, is getting ready to deploy even more capital, with the recent birth of Felicis' first institutional fund . The $40 million war chest was 33% oversubscribed and includes institutional investors like Flag Capital and Weathergage Capital and other notable names, like Peter Thiel and Joshua Schachter . So what is Senkut buying? The super angel investor recently dropped by TechCrunch TV to share his playbook. Video ahead. Hint: he says the next great mobile company may intersect with health care.