Rob's Interview with The Lantern

Rob joined friend of the firm Matt Crane on his latest episode of The Lantern, where they discussed Asymmetric's year in 2025 and what our team is focused on as we enter 2026. Check out the video and Matt's summary of the chat below!

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Excerpting the summary from Matt's post:

Welcome Rob Biederman, Managing Partner at Asymmetric Capital Partners on this episode of 🔥The Lantern 🔥

‍Asymmetric Capital Partners is an early stage technology-focused venture capital firm backing companies where technology is changing how entire industries function.

💰 What happened at Asymmetric in 2025 as they prepare for 2026? 💰

The team closed Fund II, a $137M early stage fund in the fall of 2025.

Only 8% of 2021 first-time funds have raised a larger successor vehicle…Asymmetric is one of them.

Every single LP from Fund I came back for Fund II because they saw a firm focused on substantive business models with portfolio companies from their ‘21, '22, and '23 cohorts that have held up incredibly well.

🔍 What are the trends Rob is seeing in the market? 🔍

AI is giving us the opportunity to look at massive data sets in new ways and solve problems that could never have been solved before.

‍Counsel Health is a great example. Founded by Muthu Alagappan, MD, a practicing physician and AI researcher, they built a tool that allows physicians to use AI as part of their diagnosis. Now they can deliver a doctor's appointment for literally pennies. The best, most data-driven doctor anywhere on earth with just an internet connection!

‍OneScreen.ai, another Boston based portfolio company, is the largest aggregator and marketplace of out-of-home advertising inventory. There are millions of pieces of individual inventory owned by a long tail of asset owners (billboards, subway signs, highway ads).

OneScreen can tell you the best places to advertise based on your core customer and how those ads are performing. They're changing an industry that's been static for a hundred years.

🤔 What has Rob learned from founding a startup and now building Asymmetric? 🤔

Continue to focus on the customer.

Whether it's the customer for your product or the LPs who help you raise capital.

Rob has never seen a company that solves a problem elegantly for its customer in a thoughtful way with good unit economics fail.

Keep thinking: What is the pain point? What is the customer getting out of bed every day thinking about? Solve it for them!

🤝 How can we help Asymmetric grow? 🤝

Asymmetric has portfolio companies in Boston, New York, San Francisco, and other geographies that need talent desperately.

Visit acp.vc to see every job slot at all their companies.

They're aggressively hiring at essentially all of them! Boston and New York are incredible places to build early stage technology companies. Let's celebrate the investors who are staying focused on real business models and supporting the next generation of founders!