1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Selcow of Costanoa Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about some examples of what you have invested in. In particular, talk about when you encountered the company. At what stage did you invest? What did they have that convinced you that this is a really interesting opportunity that you would like to bet on? Mark Selcow: Skedulo is a company

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Selcow of Costanoa 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 Mark Selcow was recorded in March 2019. Mark Selcow, General Partner at Costanoa Ventures, talks about the firm’s primarily B2B investment thesis and strong penchant for investing in companies that have grown

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Harald Nieder of Redalpine Venture Partners (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In the other two parts of the portfolio where things are coming by referral, is there anything specific that’s interesting that you would like to discuss? Harald Nieder: What’s interesting there is that there are a lot of different factors between the networks. If you look at our fund investors, that’s actually quite

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Harald Nieder of Redalpine Venture Partners (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Can you double-click down within the geography? How do you go about finding these teams? Harald Nieder: You have to have a lot of tools available if you have a certain topic that you’re looking after. If you already know what you’re looking after, it’s relatively easy to go out with the databases

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Harald Nieder of Redalpine Venture Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: B2B versus B2C, what’s your comfort zone? Harald Nierde: We’re, in general, open. We don’t have a focus on either. So, we invest in both. If you look at the portfolio, we have both cases in there. We actually do like to have a mix in there.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Harald Nieder of Redalpine Venture Partners (Part 2)

Harald Nieder: The other thing that’s important is obviously, the network, in particular for the early-stage investing. Network is very important. Keep in mind that in geography, we’ve been active more than 15 years, which means that we’ve had a lot of time to build our network. For example, we’ve been connected in Berlin long

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Harald Nieder of Redalpine 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 Harald Nieder was recorded in March 2019. Harald Nieder is a Partner at Redalpine Venture Partners, a European firm primarily focused on Germany and Switzerland. Sramana Mitra: So tell us about yourself

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rahul Chowdhri of Stellaris Venture Partners (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Besides these three categories that you’ve talked about or aligned to these three categories that you talked about, what are you seeing in your deal flow over the last 12 to 18 months? What’s in the pipe in India? I imagine you see several thousand deals a year, right? Rahul Chowdhri: We see

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