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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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Series A
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jake Seid of Stone Bridge Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What about geography? What’s your preference? Jake Seid: Proactively, I’m focused on Silicon Valley and outside of Silicon Valley opportunistically. Sramana Mitra: Talk about your current portfolio. What are the highlights? What have you invested in? How do you decide what you have chosen to invest in? Jake Seid: We look at great
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jake Seid of Stone Bridge 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 Jake Seid of Stone Bridge Ventures was recorded in November 2017. Jake Seid, Managing Director, Stone Bridge Ventures, talks about trends, AngelList Syndicates, ICOs and more. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Stone Bridge Ventures.
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Achler of MATH Venture Partners (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: I’m reflecting on what you said in answer to my question. Blockchain is expensive stuff to build. How do you mitigate the need for doing things in a capital-efficient manner and doing Blockchain deals? Mark Achler: We haven’t done one. Sramana Mitra: You agree that Blockchain is capital-intensive. Mark Achler: We are conservative
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Achler of MATH Venture Partners (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: We started observing the social media trend in the 2003 to 2004 timeframe. In 2007 of course, iPhone came about. The Big Data trend really picked up in the late 2000’s as well. We zeroed in on AI in just about a couple of years ago. There’s a lot of machine learning and
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Achler of MATH Venture Partners (Part 3)
Mark Achler: Our preference and our sweet spot is, we like it when there’s velocity and when there’s momentum in the sales pipeline and when there is a scalable way to generate growth, which is also another proxy for saying size and scale of the opportunity. There are a lot of wonderful companies out there
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Achler of MATH Venture Partners (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Can you also double-click down into cyber security? Cyber security has urgency. As a result, it is also one of the most crowded markets of venture capital. It has always been that way. I’ve been in this industry for more than 20 years. There has always been huge amounts of cyber security investments
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Achler of MATH Venture 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 Mark Achler was recorded in October 2017. Mark Achler, Managing Director, MATH Venture Partners, discusses their investment strategy and the industry trends. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about MATH Ventures. What is the focus of
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ron Heinz of Signal Peak Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What is the typical round size? Ron Heinz: We typically put in between $3 million and $6 million. Our ownership structures tend to be between 15% to 25%. Our average check size upfront is $5 million and the reserve would be double of that. Sramana Mitra: When you do a Series A in
