517th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ken Elefant, Sorenson Ventures

Ken Elefant, Partner and Co-founder at Sorenson Ventures, talks about trends and his investment thesis.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ken Elefant of Sorenson Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How do you parse the Series A gap that has come about in the market? There’re a lot of early stage, pre Series A investments. In fact, there’s a tremendous segmentation that has started to take place in the pre-series A space right now. There is the friends and family round, but then

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ken Elefant of Sorenson Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So one of the things that you said, which I found somewhat distinct is that you’re looking for smaller markets and not these markets that most VCs tend to go for. We’re in 2017 and lots of stuff have already been built. Nowadays, there are not many wide-open opportunities out there, but there

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ken Elefant of Sorenson Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What about geography? Ken Elefant: We’re focused on the United States since we are doing so much in security. We do spend a lot of time in Israel as well. In the past, I have done investments in India, China, Japan, both Western and Eastern Europe. There’s no problem with that. I’ve been

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ken Elefant of Sorenson 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 Ken Elefant was recorded in December 2017.  Ken Elefant, Managing Director at Sorenson Capital, discusses at length the investment thesis of his firm. Sramana Mitra: So tell us about Sorenson capital. What is the

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