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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Curtis Feeny of Silicon Valley Data 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 Curtis Feeny was recorded in April 2018. Curtis Feeny, Managing Director at Silicon Valley Data Capital, talks about his firm’s investment thesis around Big Data and Machine Learning. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vivek Ladsariya of SineWave 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 Vivek Ladsariya was recorded in April 2018. Vivek Ladsariya, Partner at SineWave Ventures, talks about the firm’s investment thesis, as well as trends in the industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nilanjana Bhowmik of Converge (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Do you invest only in the Boston area only? Nilanjana Bhowmik: We invest up and down the East Coast. The big tech hubs on the side are Boston, New York, and surprisingly Toronto. Sramana Mitra: Great. What are the highlights of your current portfolio? We are probably talking about Longworth as opposed to
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tim Guleri of Sierra Ventures (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Last question, are you chasing unicorns? Tim Guleri: No. That is something that I’m not a huge fan of. Ultimately, unicorn is an easy term for way late stage investors to say, “I’m going to invest in this company for this valuation.” I feel that that does a disservice to so much of
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Patricia Nakache of Trinity Ventures (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: One comment I want to highlight is the big difference I see on how the issue is being recorded or reported right now is people are actually naming names. That was not at all common earlier on. It makes a huge difference. Patricia Nakache: That’s right. Even recently with the Ellen Pao trial,
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nilanjana Bhowmik of Converge (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Talk about the stage that you want to invest in. How do you define Series A? Here in Silicon Valley, what we are seeing is a fragmentation and segmentation of the seed to Series A ecosystem. My second company was funded by NEA as well. At that time, NEA was okay with doing
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Tim Guleri of Sierra Ventures (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You have already cited some of your highlights. Can you talk about other companies that were really interesting companies out of your portfolio that are really emblematic of how invest? Tim Guleri: I talked about the three buckets. I’ll give you examples in all three. The first one is next generation infrastructure. These
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Patricia Nakache of Trinity Ventures (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: In terms of segment besides real estate tech, what else do you particularly like to invest in? Is healthcare It one of your sectors? Patricia Nakache: Broadly, I spend a lot of my time in the consumer space. That can be anything from marketplaces to e-commerce or online services. In the marketplace arena,
