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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Guy Resheff of Grove Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: A follow-on question that comes to my mind is that if you are looking for most of the core R&D to be done before you come in, what is the assumption about how the prospective company funds that R&D phase? Is it coming out of university research? Is it coming out of government
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Heidi Roizen of DFJ (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: The subtext of all these things that you’re saying is that there aren’t that many billion-dollar exits. Ultimately, the only valuation that matters is your exit valuation. If you’ve got a billion-dollar valuation in a private round and then you exit for $200 million, what is that going to do for you? Heidi
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Guy Resheff of Grove Ventures (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 Guy Resheff, Grove Ventures was recorded in December 2017. He is no longer with the firm. Guy Resheff, Partner at Grove Ventures, focuses the spotlight on Israel. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about your
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hernan Kazah of Kaszek Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Are there companies that have crossed $100 million in revenue? Hernan Kazah: Certainly. We have a few in our portfolio. I was mentioning Netshoes. That’s over a billion dollars in revenue. There are a few companies that have gone over $100 million. Many have gone over $20 million. Sramana Mitra: What do you
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Heidi Roizen of DFJ (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 Heidi Roizen, DFJ was recorded in March 2016. Heidi Roizen, Operating Partner at DFJ, discusses her important article, “How to Build a Unicorn From Scratch – and Walk Away with Nothing,” and imparts crucial
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jake Seid of Stone Bridge Ventures (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I’m surprised that you haven’t talked about selling when these very high level of investments start coming into a company. Sometimes it’s not just companies that are not just doing well. Sometimes if a company is a hot company, the trend has been to raise huge amounts of money. There are risks raising
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hernan Kazah of Kaszek Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: When you look at the last decade or so, besides MercadoLibre, what are other notable success stories from the Latin American market as far as startups are concerned. Hernan Kazah: There’s one company called Globant. Sramana Mitra: We covered Globant quite extensively actually. Hernan Kazah: There are two companies in Brazil. One is
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jake Seid of Stone Bridge Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Your point about the fund sizes being larger and mitigating the later stage pro rata opportunity is well taken. I’m going to elaborate on my question. There is a lot of competition to get into some of the deals for Series A and Series B. If you look at the numbers, there are
