1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tony Olivito of Comeback Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Our philosophy is Bootstrap First and Raise Money Later – or not at all. Even if it’s bootstrapping with a small amount of capital and you can get to an early exit, that is considered a perfectly fine outcome. Can you talk about a couple of examples from your portfolio that represents the

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tony Olivito of Comeback Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about geography. You talked about this bus tour being the catalyst to founding this firm. Talk about what is your philosophy on location. Tony Olivito: For us, it’s the Midwest. We started the firm because we saw an opportunity due to lack of capital in the Midwest, specifically in areas outside

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tony Olivito of Comeback Capital (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 Tony Olivito was recorded in May 2020. Tony Olivito, Partner at Comeback Capital, discusses his firm’s Midwest-focused investment thesis.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Joshua Posamentier of Congruent Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Going a bit to your first example of investing in this robotics technology, one thing that I’m monitoring is we are probably going towards an accelerated pace of robotics adoption in factories. We’ve just gone through a tremendous shock where factory workers can’t get to work. That creates tremendous supply chain disruption, so

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Joshua Posamentier of Congruent Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: We’ve looked at a bit of what you’ve done and how you operate. We’ve got a flavor. In one of your examples, you said you’ve invested in a problem that you were already familiar with. You found a great technology out of CalTech that addresses that problem. One could posit that you were

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Joshua Posamentier of Congruent Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do another one. Joshua Posamentier: We have a company called Energetic Insurance which is a pure-play InsurTech company. They make an insurance product backed by a top 5 global reinsurance company to do credit enhancement for customers that want to get solar and other energy products and have no credit of their

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Joshua Posamentier of Congruent 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 Joshua Posamentier was recorded in April 2020. Joshua Posamentier is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Congruent Ventures, a firm focused on sustainability-oriented technology ventures.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nick Adams of Differential Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’ve been in this industry for a long time, and I’ve seen a few cycles. When we see discontinuities, every VC firm goes through a process of considering that discontinuity and developing a thesis around what kinds of companies should be doing well in this environment. We just discussed one of your companies

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