Roundtable Recap: July 23 – Small VCs and Early Exits

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Sonali Vijayavargiya, Founder and Managing Partner, Augment Ventures. She discussed her firm’s investment approach, including early exits.

Siply

As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Sousthav Chakrabarty from Bangalore, India, pitch Siply, a FinTech saving solution for low-income workers in India like Uber drivers, delivery personnel, etc. Quite interesting and unique!

1Fan

Next, Doug Applegate from Indianapolis, Indiana, pitched 1Fan, a solution for fans to engage with live venues for sports, concerts, and such.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Roundtable Recap: July 16 – Spotlight on FinTech Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Dan Roselli, Founder and Managing Partner, CFV Ventures, a North Carolina firm focused on FinTech and InsureTech.

What’s The Move?

As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Mark Sindyukov from Tampa, Florida, pitching What’s The Move?, a digital solution for marketing nightlife venues. It appears that the firm’s USP is contactless payments.

EcoRewards

Next, Venan Sondo from Accra, Ghana, pitched EcoRewards, a payment solution for the waste processing industry.

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Startup Ideas for the Post Covid World: K-12 Education

In the Spring of 2020, parents of young children have suddenly woken up to a world where kids have to be homeschooled. They are supposedly guided by the teachers. These teachers have no experience of teaching online, and are thus learners themselves of a new education paradigm. They are scrambling to make things flow without losing the limited attention of the youngsters that are already difficult to command in normal times. 

The key issue I observe is that the teaching tools are not designed for this usage model.

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Roundtable Recap: July 9 – Debt Financing Options for Bootstrapped Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Joe Silver, CFO at Lighter Capital. Joe discussed his firm’s debt-financing model for startups.

Vision Phone
As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Sourav Sanyal from Bangalore, India, pitching Vision Phone, a lower cost, feature-rich smartphone for the Indian market.

KawemiValley
Next, Adetola Asa from Ile-Ife, Nigeria, pitched KawemiValley, a marketplace for coaches and trainers and leaerners who seek their help.

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Roundtable Recap: July 2 – Spotlight on Post-Seed Investing

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Raoul Maier, Founder and Managing Partner at Eudemian Ventures, a fund focused on post-seed investment in North America.

Lighthouse

As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Sinjini Sengupta from Gurgaon, India, pitch Lighthouse. The idea is quite nebulous at this point and needs a lot of work.

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Roundtable Recap: June 25 – Spotlight on Funding for Online Education Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner at GSV Ventures, a fund focused on Online Education ventures. This is a very good discussion on patterns of success and failure in the sector, and what investors are gravitating towards.

Teenager Startups

As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Sulay Shah from Toronto, Canada, pitching an online education platform for teenage entrepreneurs.

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Roundtable Recap: June 18 – Focused Startups with Precise Problems to Solve

During this week’s roundtable, we had two entrepreneur presentations.

Illogic.de

First up was Markus Salamon from Reutlingen, Germany, pitching Illogic, a Machine Learning algorithm to predict the maintenance requirement of windmills.

Jhamobi Technologies

Next Prasanna Jha from Pune, India, pitched Jhamobi Technologies, a SaaS solution for schools to function as online entities in the post-Covid world.

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