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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dafina Toncheva of US Venture Partners (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: If you start with the intent of doing that, that addresses some of those issues. My last question is, you have talked about Checkpoint at the beginning. Checkpoint is a relatively older investment of USVP. How about newer investments? What are you really proud of and why? What is it about those companies
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dafina Toncheva of US Venture Partners (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You invest in both healthcare IT and cybersecurity and your partners invest more in the life sciences angle of it. Dafina Toncheva: Correct. I actually invest in cybersecurity and enterprise applications, mostly business process automation for various verticals. Sramana Mitra: I know everybody is talking about AI and Blockchain. If you look at
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dafina Toncheva of US Venture Partners (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s build on that and understand your geographical preferences. Are you investing only in Silicon Valley or are you investing more broadly? Dafina Toncheva: When it comes to cybersecurity, we like Israel a lot. It’s an area that we have been investing in for 20 years. Sramana Mitra: There are lots of great
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dafina Toncheva of US Venture Partners (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: I don’t know if you have seen it on our blog. We have a Thought Leaders in Cyber Security series. Ray has actually been on it. He’s running a company these days. In that series, one of the questions that comes up a lot is, if you put yourself in the shoes of
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dafina Toncheva of US Venture Partners (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: One small detail question. One of the issues of the current venture capital ecosystem is that Series A financing has become larger. A class of VCs has developed that does the smaller Series A checks. Then you are doing the traditional venture capital. You want to put in $5 million to $10 million.
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dafina Toncheva of US 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 Dafina Toncheva was recorded in August 2018. Dafina Toncheva, Partner at US Venture Partners, is an expert in Cyber Security. We discussed a variety of topics including the shifting of Series A
