Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many companies do you plan to fund and accelerate this year? John: It depends on how much we invest per company. We’re looking at something in the 12 to 15 range initially. We’re funded over the next several years.

Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any particular industry preference? John: We’re very software focused. We have seen an applicant who has a hardware piece of the solution to help accelerate it, but for the most part, we’re just going to be focused on software. Citrix is very much

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Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How much funding support does Enterprise Ireland usually provide to those entrepreneurs who are qualified? John: It’s in the low hundreds of thousands. If you go to the Enterprise Ireland site, it specifies that it changes with time. Obviously, over the past few years, Ireland’s gone

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Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to John McIntyre, senior director at Citrix Startup Accelerator, which is an outgrowth of Citrix Labs, an internal research and innovation organization at Citrix with offices in Sydney (Australia) and Redmond (Washington), as well as a presence in Cambridge (UK), Santa Clara (California) and

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Pravin Gandhi, Seedfund – Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, India (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Irina: You invest not only in technology companies but in companies in other sectors, right? Pravin: Yes. India has many opportunities and challenges; technology adoption is not the best here. There are enough opportunities in different business models on how to do things better and more efficiently.

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Pravin Gandhi, Seedfund – Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, India (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Irina: How many people do you have working in your incubator now? Pravin: We have four outside advisors who work once a month or once a week, with these companies depending on the requirements. We have somebody who understands retail, somebody who understands the Internet, or somebody

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Pravin Gandhi, Seedfund – Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, India (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Irina: How do you find your current deals? Pravin: We have been in the game since 1990. Individually, we are quite well known in the early-stage business. Because we have been around, we have a very good network with investment bankers, and we are very active in

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Pravin Gandhi, Seedfund – Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, India (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Pravin: So, we went with an idea of a $50 million fund. It turned out to be quite easy to raise and within six months we were all ready to go. We had interest from variety of funds. We could have raised more money but we didn’t

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