Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about what you’re seeing in your deal flow as well as in your portfolio in terms of interesting trends. Early-stage deal flow is indicative of what’s happening in the pipeline of technology and interesting developments. What are you seeing? What’s interesting? Christopher Mirabile: Asset prices are stupid right now. That’s difficult
Sramana Mitra: To be able to get to $20 million with $1.4 million, you have to bootstrap. That’s something we believe in and promote extensively. We are with you on this line of thinking. Like you said, these large funds can only invest large amounts of money. Otherwise, their human capital-to-capital ratio doesn’t work out.
Christopher Mirabile: We have a couple of different programs. We have a traditional monthly forum where companies that are, presumptively, ready to work with investors are present. That’s usually three companies a month. Two out of three of them go right into due diligence. We also have a catalyst program where we look at a
Christopher Mirabile is Senior Managing Director at Launchpad Venture Group. We have an awesome conversation about a non-Unicorn chasing investment philosophy. Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about your background as well as Launchpad. Christopher Mirabile: I was actually an English major. I started my career in strategy consulting. I ended up getting a law
Christopher Mirabile is Senior Managing Director at Launchpad Venture Group. We have an awesome conversation about a non-Unicorn chasing investment philosophy.