Patricia Nakache, General Partner at Trinity Ventures, discusses the firm’s investment thesis and some issues encountered by women in technology.
Sramana Mitra: You got into this accelerator. You got your co-founder. We are now in late 2012? Mike Whitmire: This is mid-2013. Sramana Mitra: What happens next? Mike Whitmire: My second co-founder Chris Sluty joined us. I went to Syracuse with him. We majored in accounting. In college, I knew I wanted to start my
Mark Achler: Our preference and our sweet spot is, we like it when there’s velocity and when there’s momentum in the sales pipeline and when there is a scalable way to generate growth, which is also another proxy for saying size and scale of the opportunity. There are a lot of wonderful companies out there
Sramana Mitra: Our philosophy is much more in the former kind of financing. We are very much in the capital-efficient business building with a fundamentals-driven approach. Even if you raise a lot of money, our approach is, you need to do that at the right time with an eye towards the finer fundamentals. Ho Nam:
Nilanjana Bhowmik, Co-Founder and General Partner at Converge, a new fund started after serving as the long time General Partner at Longworth Capital. Their focus is B-to-B tech on the East Coast.
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Sramana Mitra: Can you also double-click down into cyber security? Cyber security has urgency. As a result, it is also one of the most crowded markets of venture capital. It has always been that way. I’ve been in this industry for more than 20 years. There has always been huge amounts of cyber security investments
Sramana Mitra: When you started in 2012, how did you get your business off the ground? Mike Whitmire: When I started, I was just a senior accountant. I had no money. I had no entrepreneurial experience. My first line of thinking was, “If I’m going to start a SaaS company, I’d probably need to take