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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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.

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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.

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