Roundtable Recap: June 11 – Spotlight on Retail Tech

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Vincent Diallo, Managing Partner at Interlace Ventures, a fund focused on Retail Tech.

Yotta Secure
As for entrepreneur pitches, first up was Sunil Ravipati from Santa Clara, California, pitch Yotta Secure, a Healthcare IT venture.

Hodi Hodi
Next Demba Sow from Alsace, France, pitched Hodi Hodi, a language learning venture focused on African languages.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Roundtable Recap: June 4 – No Monetization Path, No Startup

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Pamela York, Founding General Partner, CAPITA3 and Founder & CEO, Atasi Ventures, with a special focus on women entrepreneurs in healthcare.

Augmented Sense Technologies

As for entrepreneur pitches, Anthony Dobaj from San Jose, California, pitched Augmented Sense Technologies, a hardware product.

Prizatech

Next Shalender Singh from Milpitas, California, pitched Prizatech, an AI product for document generation.

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Roundtable Recap: May 28 – Alternative Financing for Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Christian Czernich, Founder and CEO at Round2 Capital Partners, a firm that is experimenting with an alternative financing model.

Prometeo

As for entrepreneur pitches, Jonathan Mentz from Cape Town, South Africa, pitched Prometeo, a risk analysis and monitoring solution.

Hustlebeez

Next Bing Huang from Sunnyvale, California, pitched Hustlebeez, a personal finance app for debt management.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Garrett Goldberg of Bee Partners (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 Garrett Goldberg was recorded in April 2020.

Garrett Goldberg, Partner at Bee Partners, discusses his firm’s enterprise focused investment thesis, including some unique insights on SaaS-powered vertical marketplaces.

Roundtable Recap: May 21 – Spotlight on Startups in the American Midwest

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Tony Olivito, Partner at Comeback Capital, who discussed his firm’s Midwest focused investment thesis.

DraftMate
As for entrepreneur pitches, Keith Heaney from Lincroft, New Jersey, pitched DraftMate, a matchmaking service for sports fans. Quite an original idea.

Love One. Love All.
Next Brad Himel from New York, New York, pitched Love One. Love All. It’s a new active wear brand that is mission driven to prevent teen suicides.

The Best Menu
Then Latifa Nassoro from Subang Jaya, Malaysia, pitched The Best Menu, an effort to help restaurants menus to combat the supply chain and demand chain breakdowns post Covid.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Roundtable Recap: May 14 – The Issue of Technical Co-founders

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Parthib Srivathsan, Co-founder and Head of Platform at Companyon Ventures.

Vittas International

As for entrepreneur pitches, Sulav Singh from Champaign, Illinois, pitched Vittas International, a FinTech lending venture focused on Nigeria to begin with.

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The 1Mby1M Curriculum has over 1000 case studies of real-life success stories. 

If you’re trying to assess why you’re getting rejections, use the 1Mby1M Self-Assessment.

We support your fund-raising efforts through personal introductions to investors.