1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When something fits your investment thesis, what do you want to see in the company when you’re doing a seed investment? What is the earliest stage check that you’re comfortable writing and what do you want to see? Do you want to see paying customers or a certain MRR? Yanev Suissa: A lot

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures (Part 1)

Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures, discusses his firm’s successes as well as its investment thesis. Vertical Cloud is one of the key ones with an emphasis on Enterprise Data Platforms. Sramana Mitra: You have big news. Let’s catch up. Yanev Suissa: We did big closings on our third fund. Our performance

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588th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Yanev Suissa, SineWave Ventures

Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures, discusses his firm’s successes as well as investment thesis. Vertical Cloud is one of the key ones with an emphasis on Enterprise Data Platforms.

Best of Bootstrapping: Discussing Trends With Yanev Suissa, SineWave Ventures

If you have been bootstrapping and think you are ready for investors, you need to learn how investors think. First, please study our free Bootstrapping course and Investor Introductions page. Then start looking for entrepreneur – investor fit. Today I introduce you to Yanev Suissal. Yanev Suissa is General Partner at SineWave Ventures out of Washington DC and Silicon

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yanev Suissa of SineWave Ventures (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: This is your first fund, right? Yanev Suissa: Yes. Sramana Mitra: Have you had any exits yet? Yanev Suissa: No, we’ve been investing for about a year. Sramana Mitra: Next question is about unicorn mania. How does a seed investor protect themselves in the event that there is huge amount of capital being

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yanev Suissa of SineWave Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: In this continuum of de-risking, where are you playing? Yanev Suissa: All of these things are reasonable factors that any VCs would look at including us. But to build an investment thesis of only investing if certain factors exist is not logical. We invest whether you have revenue or not, whether you have

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yanev Suissa of SineWave Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There are plenty of VCs focusing heavily on revenue numbers in the seed stage right now. Yanev Suissa: I remember I qualified it as who I know and who I respect. Sramana Mitra: I think I’d beg to differ there. There’re plenty of good VCs who are also focusing on revenue numbers at

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yanev Suissa of SineWave Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: That was my conclusion when you prefaced the conversation that you are focusing on these government networks. You have a special unfair advantage in government relationships. I guess I’m a little bit thrown off by your comment that very niche funds is not where your bet is, which is a contrary to what you’re

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