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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Kara Weber of Brilliant Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What do you like to invest in? Kara Weber: We invest in companies transforming the future of commerce. Those companies need to be led by brilliant and diverse leadership teams. When we say transforming the future of commerce, we’re not only talking about brands and consumer products, although we have invested in several.
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Kara Weber of Brilliant 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 Kara Weber was recorded in November 2018. Kara Weber, Founder and General Partner at Brilliant Ventures, speaks extensively about her commitment to female founders. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get you acquainted with our
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ray Chan of K5 Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How many companies have you invested in so far? Ray Chan: Over the last seven years, we have invested in over a hundred companies. Of course, a lot of them disappeared. Some of them are still going on. Sramana Mitra: Where I’m going with the question is what have you learned from investing
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ray Chan of K5 Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You said you have a very big geographical focus? How do you define that geography? How do you constrain that geography? Ray Chan: We do touch on some investments in Canada. We have maybe 10% of our investment outside of California all the way to Midwest or East Coast. Most of our investments
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ray Chan of K5 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 Ray Chan was recorded in December 2018. Ray Chan, Managing Director at K5 Ventures and Tech Coast Angels, shares his views on the segments his firms invest in. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shuly Galili of UpWest Labs (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: As part of UpWest, is there a panel of CISOs who look at your companies? Shuly Galili: We work with a lot of the industry CISOs locally in Silicon Valley as well as across the US. They’re so entrenched in understanding how to work with both ourselves and other players who have access
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shuly Galili of UpWest Labs (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: It sounds like you’re mostly doing B2B. Is that a reasonable point? Shuly Galili: I would say that most of our companies are B2B. We do have a few companies that are more on the consumer side, and most recently, in the esports domain. Sramana Mitra: Can you share a little bit about
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shuly Galili of UpWest Labs (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Are they coming to you with just the concept? Are they coming to you with some idea about what customers are looking for? What tells you that you want to give $250,000 to these two guys? Shuly Galili: Founders typically find us through our network. For many of them, they understand that UpWest
