Roundtable Recap: April 2 – Pivoting in the Age of Coronavirus

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Darshana Zaveri, Managing Partner at Catalyst Health Ventures. We discussed the firm’s medical device focused investment thesis, including the nuances of epidemiologic diagnostic that are currently immensely relevant. The Catalyst investment team also includes Managing Partner Josh Phillips and Principal Neil Swami.

Canvia

As for entrepreneur pitches, we had Rahul Ranjan from the San Francisco Bay Area in California, presenting Canvia by Palacio. Rahul is a premium member of the 1Mby1M program. The current collapse of the hospitality industry requires him to vastly modify his strategy.

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Relatient CEO Michele Perry (Part 1)

Direct and efficient patient communication is key, we discover in the age of pandemic.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Relatient and to yourself.

Michele Perry: I’m the CEO here at Relatient. I’ve been the CEO since August 2017. A little bit about Relatient, we’re a healthcare IT company focused on patient outreach. We allow our providers to relate to their patients. 

Roundtable Recap: March 26 – It’s Therapeutic to Discuss Business in These Troubled Times

This morning, we had an excellent roundtable discussing businesses from around the world.

First, we had as our guest Shruti Gandhi, General Partner and Founding Engineer, Array Ventures, a fund focused on deep tech, enterprise-facing ventures.

Edfone

As for entrepreneur pitches, we started with Nishanth Singh from Troy, Michigan, pitching Edfone, an EdTech venture. We advised Nishanth to focus on B-to-B.

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Roundtable Recap: March 19 – Trends in Food Related Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Elly Truesdell, Partner at Almanac Insights, a fund focused on food related investments. Fascinating conversation!

MarketKoin

As for entrepreneur pitches, we started with Nikolaj Vestorp from Thisted, Denmark, pitching MarketKoin, a crypto exchange for Indonesia.

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Roundtable Recap: March 12 – Biz Dev for Startups in the Age of Corona Virus

Corona Virus looms over everything we do right now. We had extensive discussion on the subject today. My primary strategy for all our entrepreneurs is that biz dev should go on. Do it online. Do it by phone. Do it through content marketing. Do it through Zoom or Webex. But don’t freeze. Your funnel needs to keep moving.

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Roundtable Recap: March 5 – Do Not Spray and Pray

During this week’s roundtable, we had an extensive discussion on Positioning.

Pebble Distributed Ledger Technology

Our entrepreneur pitch was by Deepansh Singe from Kerala, India. He pitched Pebble Distributed Ledger Technology.

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Roundtable Recap: February 27 – Three Reasonable Startups in Validation Mode

During this week’s roundtable, we had three pitches.

Amma’s Kitchen
First up, Kiran Vasudeva from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, pitched Amma’s
Kitchen, a training and subscription service for cooking Indian
vegetarian recipes for people interested in following a plant-based diet.

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Roundtable Recap: February 20 – Comparables are Key

As our guest this week, we had Ashish Jain, Partner at 3Lines Ventures. We discussed his firm’s investment hypothesis.

Everydae

As for our entrepreneur pitch, today we had Christine Outram pitching Everydae, an educational app venture. I suggested to Christine to investigate comparables for her venture. In 2020, with so much innovation already under way, competition and comparables are areas that investors cannot ignore.

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