1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Heather Hiles, Founder and Managing Partner at Imminent Equity (Part 2)

Heather Hiles: I wound up working with Bill and Melinda Gates at their foundation and did a lot of investing and learning about the investment process. I realized I love capacity building and investing in them. That’s what led, in part, to being a co-founder of Black Ops Ventures where I was Managing Partner. The investment thesis there was that 100% of the money we’re investing is into black-founded tech companies. That’s being run by my partners very well.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Heather Hiles, Founder and Managing Partner at Imminent Equity (Part 1)

Heather Hiles is the Founder and Managing Partner at Imminent Equity and a pioneering entrepreneur in the Black community. Heather also has deep experience in financing Black entrepreneurs, as well as on the education side to close knowledge gaps at scale.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s get you acquainted with our audience. Tell us about you and the tracks you have traveled to get to where you are today. Tell us about what you’re working on at Imminent. What is your investment focus?

594th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Kyle Asman, Backswing Ventures

Kyle Asman is Managing Director at Backswing Ventures, a firm that has a non-Unicorn investment thesis.

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594th Roundtable Recording with Kyle Asman, Backswing Ventures

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Roundtable Recap: October 27 – Non-Unicorn Investment Thesis

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Kyle Asman, Managing Director at Backswing Ventures, a firm that has a non-Unicorn investment thesis.

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593rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Giuseppe Donvito, P101 Ventures

Giuseppe Donvito is Partner at P101 Ventures based in Milan. We have a wonderful conversation about Italian startups.

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593rd Roundtable Recording with Giuseppe Donvito, P101 Ventures

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anirudh Damani, Managing Partner at Artha Venture Fund (Part 6)

Anirudh Damani: However, India continues to be a very price-conscious market. India is not usually the place where you come to have massive profits. You get massive scale but not massive profits. When you go overseas like Africa or Southeast Asia, there are two parts of the world holding close to two billion plus people that are willing to pay much higher amounts than what you would be charging in India.

There’s a willingness to pay four times more in some cases. That’s the reason why a lot of these platforms are looking at Southeast Asia, Africa, and Europe. They see a massive increase in revenue just by being overseas.