Kanishk Walia is a Partner at Middlegame Ventures who also co-founded and runs Open Risk Exchange, giving him hands-on operating experience alongside investing, and he tends to look at companies—like the music-rights platform MusicInfra—through the lens of financial infrastructure and market plumbing rather than typical software framing. He also teaches practical venture skills like deal sourcing and data tools at the LPEA VC Masterclass, and in insurtech he focuses specifically on how unlocking siloed SaaS data can give brokers and carriers a distribution edge for underserved small businesses.