Sramana Mitra: We have a lot of activity right now in Europe. Recently in the last Fall, we announced a partnership with EIT Health. These are all healthcare IT companies. That’s probably aligned with your investment thesis. How about a few examples of deals that you have invested in and a little bit of a
Sramana Mitra: Let’s double click down on your portfolio. In what shape did they come to you? What stage? What is it about them that attracted you enough for you to make the investment? Daniel Keiper-Knorr: Typically, we try to be the first institutional investor coming on the cap table. However, we don’t see ourselves
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Sramana Mitra: Let’s say we send you a company. You will figure out from your network who is the likely investor that you want to do the deal with and have them price the deal and lead the deal. Is that what you’re saying? Frank Malek: Yes, we prefer that. That’s right. Sramana Mitra: You
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Daniel Keiper-Knorr was recorded in January 2019. Daniel Keiper-Knorr is Founder and General Partner at Speedinvest, a venture firm based in Vienna. It’s great to see exciting energy and activity in Vienna,
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Frank Malek was recorded in January 2019. Frank Malek is General Partner at Impacteo, an impact investment fund that invests in companies in the US and in Europe. This includes companies in
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Sramana Mitra: Interesting. Talk to me a bit about doing this in Tucson, Arizona. What are the dynamics? What is the community like and to what extent are you leveraging that community’s pros and cons? Joshua Strebel: In the early days, we were based in Phoenix first. We moved to Tucson about four years ago.