1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hernan Kazah of Kaszek Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Are there companies that have crossed $100 million in revenue? Hernan Kazah: Certainly. We have a few in our portfolio. I was mentioning Netshoes. That’s over a billion dollars in revenue. There are a few companies that have gone over $100 million. Many have gone over $20 million. Sramana Mitra: What do you

Read Full Article »

Featured Videos

5 Thought Leaders Discuss Corporate Innovation in Podcasts

For several years, I’ve been working with some corporate partners that want their whole organization to have at least an opportunity to participate in innovation. Part of this is driven by the fact that today, the words innovation and entrepreneurship are so catchy and so pervasive in corporate societies that part of the job attractiveness

Read Full Article »

What is the Incubator-In-A-Box?

Here Sramana Mitra explains our Incubator-In-A-Box (IIAB) program for which we’re seeing very significant interest right now. IIAB is our core partnership platform.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Heidi Roizen of DFJ (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Heidi Roizen, DFJ was recorded in March 2016.  Heidi Roizen, Operating Partner at DFJ, discusses her important article, “How to Build a Unicorn From Scratch – and Walk Away with Nothing,” and imparts crucial

Read Full Article »

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jake Seid of Stone Bridge Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’m surprised that you haven’t talked about selling when these very high level of investments start coming into a company. Sometimes it’s not just companies that are not just doing well. Sometimes if a company is a hot company, the trend has been to raise huge amounts of money. There are risks raising

Read Full Article »

Bootstrap First with Services, Raise Money Later: John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What is the pricing model? John Stewart: It’s based on per user per month. Sramana Mitra: What is the average deal size when you’re selling to one of your clients? John Stewart: It varies by segment. We have as little as a single license at a non-profit to as many as thousands at

Read Full Article »

Catching Up On Readings: IPO Rush

This feature from Barrons looks at the busiest IPO weeks in three years that saw cloud companies Docusign, SmartSheet, and Ceridian go public. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hernan Kazah of Kaszek Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When you look at the last decade or so, besides MercadoLibre, what are other notable success stories from the Latin American market as far as startups are concerned. Hernan Kazah: There’s one company called Globant. Sramana Mitra: We covered Globant quite extensively actually. Hernan Kazah: There are two companies in Brazil. One is

Read Full Article »