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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Brij Bhasin of Rebright Partners (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Talk about your current portfolio. You said you’ve made 10 investments. Tell us a bit about what you’ve invested in. In particular, let’s focus on a company or two that are scaling well. Has anything crossed the $5 million annual revenue mark? Brij Bhasin: Let me give you a few examples of companies
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Brij Bhasin of Rebright 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 Brij Bhasin of Rebright Partners was recorded in January 2018. Brij Bhasin, Principal and India Investment Lead at Rebright Partners, which is a Japanese Venture Capital firm, discusses their India strategy. The conversation encompasses
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bruce Cleveland of Wildcat Venture Partners (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Last question on trends, what do you make of unicorn mania? How do you parse it? How do you strategize given that it is a factor in the market right now? Bruce Cleveland: One of the reasons why we like to do early-stage investing is there’s a lot of capital that has been locked
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bruce Cleveland of Wildcat Venture Partners (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Our customer validation methodology is completely about customer immersion and getting as much feedback even before you write a line of code. What about geography? Are you investing only in Silicon Valley? Bruce Cleveland: Our partners come from different parts of the country. That makes it interesting. Bryan Stolle comes from Texas. He
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bruce Cleveland of Wildcat Venture Partners (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Our community’s work is with the very early stages. When you say you’re willing to do seed, can you elaborate? What’s happened in the seed ecosystem is that there are 500 to 600 micro VCs that have come into the business in the last five years or so. That seed ecosystem has fragmented
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bruce Cleveland of Wildcat Venture 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 Bruce Cleveland of Wildcat Venture Partners was recorded in January 2018. Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, is one of the early employees at Oracle, as well as a co-founder of Siebel
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Andrew Cain McClary of KdT Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: In your deal flow, what kind of trends are you seeing? Andrew Cain McClary: On the tools side of things, I feel like everyone feels it’s a prerequisite to put AI or machine learning in whatever they’re doing even when sometimes the datasets are not there for them to include that in a
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Andrew Cain McClary of KdT Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Just to double-click on what you said, would you fund a company that has a good level of technology and a good understanding of the business, but still needs another half a million to a million for product development? Andrew Cain McClary: Absolutely. The earlier in the stack I go, the better I
