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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Clint Chao of Moment 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 Clint Chao of Moment Ventures was recorded in March 2018. Clint Chao, Co-Founder and General Partner at Moment Ventures, discusses the vertical niche opportunities in the tech industry. Sramana Mitra: Tell us
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ben Mathias of Vertex 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 Ben Mathias of Vertex Ventures was recorded in March 2018. Ben Mathias, Managing Partner at Vertex Ventures, India, discusses the trends and dynamics of the Indian startup ecosystem, including exits. India needs
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anshu Sharma (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What did you do in the healthcare space? Anshu Sharma: In healthcare, I started a company along with other founders. They’re still in stealth mode. People can learn more by googling RobinAI. We are attacking a huge problem in healthcare where doctors spend way too much time interacting with their EHR systems and
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jeremy Schneider and Jonathan Pines of Webb Investment Network (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Do they listen to your advice? Jonathan Pines: In some cases, they do. In some cases when someone’s offering money at a high price, it can be very tempting to take it. The other piece that’s important is to be aware of the terms of the round. In some cases, the highest-priced offer
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anshu Sharma (Part 4)
Anshu Sharma: Every niche of a market is part of a bigger niche. Forget about software and enterprise software, because it may be hard for people to understand what I’m saying. Let’s say someone says, “I want to start building cables. I’m going to start manufacturing cable for electricity.” That’s a very small market. It’s
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dennis Joyce of Alliance of Angels (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Given what you just said and if you’ll then look back on the deal flow that you have seen, I have a different question which is slightly off-center. Obviously we are at a time in history where there is a huge number of people who are unhappy and struggling and under tremendous stress. Their
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jeremy Schneider and Jonathan Pines of Webb Investment Network (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Some examples in your current portfolio. Jeremy Schneider: There’s many. For example, PagerDuty is a company that we’re huge fans of and feel very lucky to work with. We met them through YCombinator but what made us really want them is, they had a great team. Two is that Maynard struggled with this
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anshu Sharma (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: We’ve covered Nutanix extensively. Our community knows Nutanix very well. At what stage did you get involved with Nutanix? Anshu Sharma: It was the stage at which it was just an idea. I had known and interacted with Dheeraj at Salesforce while he was at his previous company. He and I had done
