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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Taylor Greene of Collaborative Fund (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me about the kinds of B2C ventures you like to invest in. Besides the ventures doing good element, is there other parameterization that you could put on your preferred investments? Taylor Greene: I try to simplify as much as possible. It’s my job to find outstanding entrepreneurs with breakthrough ideas who are
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Daniel Ibri of Mindset Ventures (Part 3)
Daniel Ibri: If you go to a retail shop, you can normally pay for your high end equipment in installments. It’s really common for the Brazilian market. These retailers end up giving credit, direct to consumers, out of their own balance sheet. The delinquency rate is really huge. It’s something around 30% to 50%. The
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Taylor Greene of Collaborative Fund (Part 2)
Taylor Greene: I think the major shift over the last six years since I’ve been doing this full-time is in the nomenclature. Pre-seed is really akin to what would have been a seed round or angel round 10 years ago. Typically that’s between $750,000 and a million dollars. Ten years ago when I was raising
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Daniel Ibri of Mindset Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You have a very interesting investment thesis. What stage do you come in? Daniel Ibri: We normally invest early stage. It’s normally pre-A, A, or post-A. It’s normally around Series A and we normally co-invest with local funds. We try not to lead the rounds. We co-invest with local VC’s and angels. We
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Taylor Greene of Collaborative Fund (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 Taylor Greene was recorded in April 2019. Taylor Greene, Managing Director at Collaborative Fund, shares his firms’ investment thesis. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you and to Collaborative
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Daniel Ibri of Mindset 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 Daniel Ibri was recorded in April 2019. Daniel Ibri, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Mindset Ventures, talks about his firm’s investment thesis in enabling US and Israeli companies to enter Brazil. Sramana
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bill Bice of Verge Fund (Part 5)
Bill Bice: If you have a business and you want help in growing, there are literally thousands of options out there. It’s another way of saying that nobody has gotten great at doing it. That’s the problem that we’re tackling. We’ve built a marketing automation system that automates whole industries instead of being designed to
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bill Bice of Verge Fund (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s do some examples from your investment portfolio. What have you invested in? What are the highlights of your portfolio? As you describe them, what state did you encounter these companies in? What attracted you to them? Bill Bice: Let’s start with Intellicyt that I just mentioned. It was a pre-revenue, pre-LLC company.
