1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alok Nandan of Emergent Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Talk a bit about trends. If you look at the last 18 months of your deal flow, what are you spotting? Alok Nandan: One of the big trends is AI. The next trend is around the explainability or accountability of AI. How do you make sure that the machine learning models are explainable

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alok Nandan of Emergent 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 Alok Nandan was recorded in September 2019. Alok Nandan, General Partner at Emergent Ventures (USA), discusses explainable AI in the context of his fund’s investment focus.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rodrigo Baer of Redpoint Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Talk a little bit about what’s in the pipeline. What’s exciting in your portfolio? Rodrigo Baer: One is a mid-stage company that just raised a $50 million round. They take small merchants and put them under one umbrella to sell into a large marketplace. From the marketplace’s perspective, it’s one store. It’s normally

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rodrigo Baer of Redpoint Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In the course of your introduction, you talked about two or three unicorns that have come out of your previous fund. Could you double-click down and talk about what they are, what problems have they solved, how they found traction, and why have they been successful? Rodrigo Baer: The one I did in

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rodrigo Baer of Redpoint Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk a bit more in detail about the Redpoint e.ventures platform. All investments are happening in Brazil, correct? Rodrigo Baer: We have a Latin American mandate. We’ve done one investment outside of Brazil in the first fund. We were very lucky. We did the seed investment in Rappi, which is now a

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rodrigo Baer of Redpoint 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 Rodrigo Baer was recorded in September 2019. Rodrigo Baer, Partner at Redpoint Ventures, Brazil, provides a very interesting overview of his firm and what’s happening in the Brazilian ecosystem.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Doug Atkin of Communitas Capital Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You said you’ve invested in 10 companies from this vehicle. Could you talk about some examples? Specifically, talk about in what stage did you encounter them and what was it about what they had that called you to make the investment. I’m trying to understand how you evaluate investments. Doug Atkin: Let me

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Doug Atkin of Communitas Capital Partners (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: B2B need less money, I think. Doug Atkin: It all depends. If you’re building a business like an analytics package which you’re selling to the big banks, you need a decent amount of money to build something of industrial quality. A lot of these things take a bit more money. Sramana Mitra: The

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