1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Financing

Raising money to build a startup is a huge challenge. To be able to raise any money at all, you must first understand how investors think. We have developed the following courses catering to entrepreneurs in different stages of their entrepreneurial journey.

592nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Heather Hiles, Imminent Equity

Heather Hiles is Founder and Managing Partner at Imminent Equity, and a pioneering entrepreneur in the Black community. Heather also has deep experience in financing Black entrepreneurs, as well as on the education side to close knowledge gaps at scale.

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592nd Roundtable Recording with Heather Hiles, Imminent Equity

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Roundtable Recap: October 6 – Spotlight on Black Entrepreneurs

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Heather Hiles, Founder and Managing Partner at Imminent Equity, and a pioneering entrepreneur in the Black community. Heather also has deep experience in financing Black entrepreneurs, as well as on the education side to close knowledge gaps at scale.

Block Transfer

As for our entrepreneur pitches, first we had John Wooten from Atlanta, Georgia, pitch Block Transfer, a peer-to-peer stock trading platform.

StyleAStar

Then Victoria Christopher from Nigeria pitched StyleAStar, a B-to-C Customized Fashion business.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures (Part 1)

Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures, discusses his firm’s successes as well as its investment thesis. Vertical Cloud is one of the key ones with an emphasis on Enterprise Data Platforms.

Sramana Mitra: You have big news. Let’s catch up.

Yanev Suissa: We did big closings on our third fund. Our performance has been top 5 percentile in the industry. We’ve been doing a great job. Things have been chugging along at SineWave.

591st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Anirudh Damani, Artha Venture Fund

Anirudh Damani is Managing Partner at Artha Venture Fund. We have a terrific discussion on the Indian Startup Ecosystem and its trends.

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591st Roundtable Recording with Anirudh Damani, Artha Venture Fund

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Roundtable Recap: September 22 – Spotlight on India’s Startup Ecosystem

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Anirudh Damani, Managing Partner at Artha Venture Fund. We had a terrific discussion on the Indian Startup Ecosystem and its trends.

Wast-e-collecter

As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Puneet Agarwal from Jaipur, India, pitch Wast-e-collector, a concept stage venture.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 1)

Dheeraj Pandey, founder of Nutanix and DevRev. The conversation spans a variety of topics and has some brilliant insights into the gaps in the tech industry.

Sramana Mitra: We’re going to continue the conversation we’ve had where we talked about his background as a founder of a successful high-growth company. We’re going to talk about investment today. Let’s start by however you want to introduce yourself and your companies.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tea Hea Nahm, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Storm Ventures (Part 1)

Tae Hea Nahm, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Storm Ventures, emphasizes and articulates his firm’s specific interest in investing in vertical cloud startups.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself a little bit and then we’ll come to Storm Ventures. What path did you follow to founding Storm Ventures?

Tea Hea Nahm: I was born in Korea. We immigrated when I was five years old. I started my career in Silicon Valley as a corporate lawyer working with 200 startups. In 2000, I left law and co-founded Storm Ventures and have been a partner at Storm for the last 22 years.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mohanjit Jolly, Partner at Iron Pillar (Part 1)

Mohanjit Jolly, Partner at Iron Pillar, and a long-time player in the Indian startup ecosystem discusses Exit options for Indian startups and other topics.

Sramana Mitra: I know you’ve been in the industry for a very long time and have been following the evolution of the Indian venture capital ecosystem for a long time. Let’s start diving into a bit of your background. Then let’s introduce Iron Pillar.

588th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Yanev Suissa, SineWave Ventures

Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures, discusses his firm’s successes as well as investment thesis. Vertical Cloud is one of the key ones with an emphasis on Enterprise Data Platforms.

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588th Roundtable Recording with Yanev Suissa, SineWave Ventures

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Roundtable Recap: September 1 – More on Vertical Cloud Investment Thesis

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures. Yanev discussed his firm’s successes as well as investment thesis. Vertical Cloud is one of the key ones with an emphasis on Enterprise Data Platforms.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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587th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Dheeraj Pandey, Nutanix

Dheeraj Pandey, founder of Nutanix and DevRev. The conversation spans a variety of topics and has some brilliant insights on the gaps in the tech industry.

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587th Roundtable Recording with Dheeraj Pandey

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