: A prominent growth-stage investor at Index who has worked with companies like Slack and Discord , focusing on products that transform how society lives and works. Index Ventures' Nina Achadjian and Sarah Cannon
: They discussed how Index Ventures was navigating the rise of "rolling funds" and other new seed vehicles that were disrupting the traditional VC model.
: Achadjian and Cannon noted that for top-tier growth-stage startups, the demand from investors had become virtually limitless, leading to larger rounds and more competitive deal-making.
The central theme of their discussion was the "infinite bid"—the phenomenon of immense capital flooding the market, which drastically accelerated the pace of investing and valuation growth for promising startups.