1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Preeti Rathi of Ignition Partners (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: If an entrepreneur takes $6.5 million in seed, how much ownership does he have left in the company? Preeti Rathi: Entrepreneurs have to be careful about making sure that they manage the valuation from that perspective. It isn’t really a good idea to give up so much of the company that it actually

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Preeti Rathi of Ignition Partners (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a little bit about trends that you see in your deal flow. So if you look back on the last 12 or 18 months of deal flow, what are the highlights? Preeti Rathi: When I think about that, one thing that I’ve seen is this winner-take-all phenomenon that we’re observing.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Preeti Rathi of Ignition Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Are all the names that you rattled off seed investments? Preeti Rathi: Yes, most of them. We’re seed investors in Splunk and DocuSign. Not everyone of them is a seed investment. Like I said, we partner. Series A is a very good place for us to start with as well. If it’s something

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Preeti Rathi of Ignition Partners (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What about geography? What’s comfortable? Preeti Rathi: From a geography perspective, we’re really focused on companies right here in the US. Given our model of working hand in hand with our portfolio companies, we basically will wear whatever hat our portfolio companies require us to wear. You need help with strategy, we’ll do

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Preeti Rathi of Ignition Partners (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 Preeti Rathi was recorded in January 2019. Preeti Rathi, Partner at Ignition Partners, discusses the changing dynamics of seed investing. Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about yourself as well as acquaint

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429th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Preeti Rathi, Ignition Partners

Preeti Rathi, Partner at Ignition Partners, discusses the changing dynamics of seed investing.