
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Gans Subramanian, Managing Partner at Hourglass Venture Partners, and a former 1Mby1M Premium member who has now formed his own venture fund.
Homeroots
As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Gil Bar-Lev from Fairfield, New Jersey, pitch Homeroots, a company already beyond $5M in annual revenue, looking to raise a Series A.
You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

Eva Yazhari, General Partner at Beyond Capital Ventures, discusses Impact Investing in Africa and India.
Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Beyond Capital Ventures. Tell us a bit about your background and what you’re trying to do with Beyond Capital.
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Europe is now home to numerous Unicorns, and investors are becoming more ambitious all the time. Despite this, some of Europe’s traditional practicality remains, and another positive development is growing ties between European investors and their American counterparts.
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Sramana Mitra: Technology-wise, you told me the story of winning one competitor and replacing them. What does the competitive landscape look like?
Sonny Tai: We never lose when we’re given a fair shake. What I mean by that is, if a customer does a pilot with us and tests our technology in earnest, we have never lost a deal. We’ve had customers where they deprioritize this initiative. There’s nothing we can do about that.
>>>Sramana Mitra: Tell me more about this last use case where you take over the screen of the user and fix problems. How well-deployed is that?
Muddu Sudhakar: All of our customers are using that today. We now have 75 million users worldwide.
Sramana Mitra: How many customers is that?
>>>Sramana Mitra: What about the first customer? Was that a managed service provider or was it an end-user?
Sonny Tai: The first customer was an end-user. Our first employee attended a private school in Chicago called Francis Parker School. They’re very forward-thinking about how they want to deploy security technology to help protect their students. This school was our first customer. We started working with them on a pilot basis in mid-2018.
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