Sramana Mitra: How big is Courtside Ventures? Deepen Parikh: Our first fund is $35 million. We were scrambling non-stop. It was just me and my partner. Our job is to find the best entrepreneurs, companies, and ideas across our main verticals. As a first-time fund, it was about building relationships with other VCs, sports leagues,
Sramana Mitra: What about technology – all this data and analytics? What is the mix there? Gregory Marino: Everything is on a digital platform. We ensure that when we put a process in place or a course online, there is a mechanism to measure the effects. We’ll get down to the clickstream data and understand
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Deepen Parikh was recorded in May 2019. Deepen Parikh is Partner at Courtside Ventures, a firm focused on investing in sports-related ventures. He provides a fascinating window into a little-discussed sector. Sramana
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 455th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, September 5, 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
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Mikko has steadily built an excellent SaaS company from Finland and is now expanding into the US as well. Read on for more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Mikko Honkanen: I was born in
Sramana Mitra: Break it down for me a little bit. Talk about departments within Purdue that are using this. How is it getting rolled out to the broader Purdue community? You said it went to 30,000 people because of the Purdue partnership and acquisition. Talk a but more about that. Gregory Marino: The first part
During this week’s roundtable, we had Ryan Chan, CEO and Founder at UpKeep Maintenance Management. Ryan has bootstrapped with a paycheck and subsequently, gone through YCombinator, followed by raising $13 Million. Great case study. Travling As for the pitches, up first we had Daniel Agung Pratana from Indonesia pitch Travling, a local travel app.