1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Matt Carbonara of Citi Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: There’s a lot of stuff that you said that we can double-click down on. Can you talk us through a case study of a company that you’ve invested that found significant go-to market leverage through the Citi customer base? Matt Carbonara: There’s a company that we’re invested in called High Radius. They factor

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Matt Carbonara of Citi 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 Matt Carbonara was recorded in March 2020. Matt Carbonara, Managing Director at Citi Ventures, discusses the fund’s activities and focus.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashish Jain of 3Lines Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Do you want to do another example? Ashish Jain: Let’s take one from India. I would not even call it emerging anymore. India is going through Innovation 3.0. 1.0 was around business process outsourcing. 2.0 was around IT services companies. These founders are looking beyond replicating. They are looking into supply chain, platforms

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashish Jain of 3Lines Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What kinds of ventures do you think you add the most value to and, hence, what are you looking to invest in? Ashish Jain: We are a technology firm. We are lovers of technology. We invest in three broad descriptive areas. One is exceptional founders and companies related to the future of work.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Deepak Jeevankumar of Dell Technologies Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: We make a distinction between fat startups and lean startups. Cyber security is a very good example of an area where some startups tend to be fat startups. It takes time to build the product. The enterprise sales cycles are very long. Cyber security sales cycles can go on for months. In our

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashish Jain of 3Lines 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 Ashish Jain was recorded in February 2020. Ashish Jain, Partner at 3Lines Ventures, discusses his firm’s investment hypothesis. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get you introduced to our audience. Tell us a little bit

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Deepak Jeevankumar of Dell Technologies Capital (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 Deepak Jeevankumar was recorded in February 2020. Deepak Jeevankumar, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, discusses his fund’s focus and preferences.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Osayi Igharo at Ripple Venture Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How many entrepreneurs are operating in Nigeria right now? Osayi Igharo: That’s hard to estimate. Sramana Mitra: Just to give you a proxy, India is a country with 1.3 billion people. I think there are more than 10,000 startups in the country right now. It’s not easy to get to those numbers.