Soso Sazesh / 43

Soso Sazesh is a Partner at 43 Fund, an “anti-consensus fund” where three partners split everything equally and make investment decisions independently.

Soso’s background shaped how 43 operates. Most funds agonize over investment committee decisions and consensus-building. 43 eliminated the committee concept entirely. Soso, Dustin, and Anabel each invest their portion of the fund and can write checks without the others’ approval. Three distinct investment styles focused on the same goal: writing founders their first check.

Our conversation gets into why this timing works. Accelerators are no longer the golden ticket. The best founders have moved on, raising their first checks through networks of angels and small funds that provide personalized feedback and hands-on help instead of one-size-fits-all cohorts. What accelerators offered: early capital, community, mentorship is still needed, but it’s been redistributed across operator led syndicates, rolling funds, and micro funds like 43.

43 positions itself as the alternative to accelerators, not the stepping stone to them. While Y Combinator batches founders into cohorts, 43 provides individualized support on the founder’s timeline. Capital and hands-on guidance before products exist, before traction develops, sometimes before teams are even formed.

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