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- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Clint Chao of Moment Ventures (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: How do you process the current investment climate where capital is moving further and further upstream? How does a seed investor mitigate the Series A gap? Clint Chao: It’s a great question. It’s clear that your traditional Series A investors have raised the hurdle, if you will, on what qualifies as a viable
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ben Mathias of Vertex Ventures (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: We are in 2018. A lot of stuff has already been built. Relative to the amount of capital that is available in the market, there are 700 plus micro-VCs in the market right now. There is a huge number of entrepreneurs who are starting companies. We can’t expect that every single venture out
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Clint Chao of Moment Ventures (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How big is the fund? Clint Chao: Our first fund is a small fund. It’s a $10 million fund. We launched that officially in 2015. We did a first close on our second fund late last year. That’s a $50 million fund. Our initial investment in fund one averaged around $250,000. We reserve
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ben Mathias of Vertex Ventures (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: When you look at the Indian geography, what is the distribution of deal flow that you’re seeing? Is there a bias towards Bangalore? I know Chennai and Pune have done well. Ben Mathias: It’s pretty scattered. Bangalore, for sure, is the leader in terms of the number of companies. We do see a
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Clint Chao of Moment Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: We see a ton of companies outside of the Bay Area given what we do and our global nature. The other day, there was a security company from Capetown, South Africa pitching at the roundtable. It’s very encouraging and heartwarming to see how much of the knowledge of what we used to do
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ben Mathias of Vertex Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: In terms of deep technology companies, could you share one or two examples from your portfolio or from your radar that are interesting global potential. Ben Mathias: I’ll talk a little bit about one of the companies I mentioned a few minutes ago, ActiveAI. This is a technology company that is building solutions
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Clint Chao of Moment Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Double-click down for us into the B2B investments that you make. What sectors of B2B are particularly interesting? Where do you have expertise? Clint Chao: When we say B2B, we’re essentially looking for companies that sell their product or service to other businesses. We’ve created our own investment thesis that we call Reimagine
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ben Mathias of Vertex Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Do you invest in B2B ventures that would be Indian B2B-facing? Ben Mathias: We do. Most of our companies started with their initial customer base in India. At the end of the day, the Indian B2B market is limited. You could probably get to a $20 million ARR company if you focused on
