Building a New Insurance Company From Scratch: Clearcover CEO Kyle Nakatsuji (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What did you do by way of financing? This doesn’t sound like something that was self-financed. You probably started with financing. Kyle Nakatsuji: We did. Right when we were getting started, we raised a seed round of about $2 million. About six months later, we raised another $9.5 million. Sramana Mitra: Is this

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Selcow of Costanoa Ventures (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 Mark Selcow was recorded in March 2019. Mark Selcow, General Partner at Costanoa Ventures, talks about the firm’s primarily B2B investment thesis and strong penchant for investing in companies that have grown

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Thursday, May 2 – 442nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 442nd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 2, 2019, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others

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440th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Shripati Acharya, Prime Venture Partners

Shripati Acharya is Managing Partner at Priven Advisors, advising Prime Venture Partners, a firm focused on core technology ventures in India. Unlike most VCs, Prime does do concept-stage investments.

439th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Michael Smerklo, Next Coast Ventures

Michael Smerklo, Co-founder and Managing Director at Next Coast Ventures, talks about some of the ventures his firm has invested in and the philosophy in general.

Building a New Insurance Company From Scratch: Clearcover CEO Kyle Nakatsuji (Part 5)

Kyle Nakatsuji: The thesis was actually pretty straightforward. In this new breed of insurance company category, almost everybody is focused on one thing, which is trying to find ways to offer people a quality product for less money. Insurance, even if this isn’t necessarily true in every sense, is viewed largely as a commodity by

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Life Image CEO Matthew Michela (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How long do you think it’s going to take for those seven kinds of datasets to build up in an accessible fashion? Are we a decade away? Matthew Michela: We shouldn’t be 10 years away at all. We’re probably in a three to five-year timeframe. You’re going to see, next year, significant advancements.

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Catching Up On Readings: Yuval Harari on AI

This feature from Wired provides the transcript of a recent Stanford interview of author Yuval Noah Harari and Fei-Fei Li, one of the pioneers in the field of artificial intelligence. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.