1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jonathan Lewy of Investo (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let me try to parse what you are saying. In some cases, you go after Latin American companies where you can add value by introducing them into your Silicon Valley network. That is one of your value propositions to Latin American companies in the pre-seed stage. That’s one sector. You just provided an example of that.

You also invest in pure Silicon Valley companies where you provide Latin American networks in case they want to get into Latin America. That is another differentiated value proposition where you’re offering pre-seed financing and a Latin American network. These are two differentiated strategies in your investment that I have picked up so far. It seems like you also have a third kind of focus which is to find random good companies where you want to be pre-seed investors.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Eric Benhamou of Benhamou Global Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: One other area along the lines of what you’re talking about that we are seeing is the notion of connectors. There are so many modular technologies in use right now. Enterprises are using so many different tools and so many cloud services. Connecting all these things together is a nightmare. It seems like there’s a whole connection layer opening up which also needs an infrastructure-level handling.

Eric Benhamou: We totally agree with that. It’s the same, general kind of opportunities. It’s dealing with contemporary, totally distributed, virtualized data centers where dependencies are extraordinarily complex and provisioning orchestration is also very complex. >>>