Sramana Mitra: One of the big successes of Latin America is Mercado Libre. They were my clients when I was consulting many years ago. I have known them for a long time. That company was a team from Stanford, so they knew how to raise venture capital. In the early stages, Mercado Libre was rather
Sramana Mitra: When I look back to when I started in the technology industry, it was the mid-90’s which was the beginning of the internet. There was still stuff like dial-up internet. Today, a lot of founders have not experienced a non-internet life. These are young people who are digital natives and many of them
Laurel Touby, Managing Director of Supernode Ventures, talks about pre-seed investing in Latin America. Sramana Mitra: How has COVID been? How have you been? How has the business environment for you been?
Laurel Touby, Managing Director of Supernode Ventures, talks about pre-seed investing in Latin America.
Sramana Mitra: What do you think of this particular phenomenon? We’re in the beginning of 2018. Lots of stuff have already been built. Nowadays, there aren’t so many wide open opportunities with multi-billion TAM’s but there are many niche opportunities. Some of these businesses need to be built for very small amounts of capital –
Sramana Mitra: What have you invested in? Give us an example or two and tell us why you chose to invest in those. Laurel Touby: We are about to close the first close of our fund. We’re now looking at investment for that fund. In my angel investing, you can see some indicators of some
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Laurel Touby of Supernode Ventures was recorded in January 2018. Laurel Touby, Managing Partner at Supernode Ventures, and a former entrepreneur and avid angel investor, has now launched her new institutional pre-seed fund. Sramana