1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Karthee Madasamy, Founder and Managing Partner at Mobile Foundation Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: We have been doing 1Mby1M for over a decade and with our experience, technical founders can be taught the business side. I would say that the biggest achievement of 1Mby1M is teaching technical founders this accelerated mini-MBA that gives them all the pieces that they need to put things into perspective at least for that early stage.

In a deep tech deal, you are going to spend quite a bit of time just building the product and talking to customers to figure out what products you are doing. You don’t gain anything by bringing in a salesperson at that point. It is a founder-led sales process at that point. 

536th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Rajeev Singh-Molares, Alma Mundi Ventures

Rajeev Singh-Morales, Founder and Managing Partner at Alma Mundi Ventures, discusses the Europe – US bridge for tech startups.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Karthee Madasamy, Founder and Managing Partner at Mobile Foundation Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on deep tech and seed investing in 2021. What check sizes are you writing and what does a team need to have in place for you to be willing to write that first check?

Karthee Madasamy: We invest between Seed and Series A. A lot of our stuff is with Series A. We selectively do seed, post-seed, or pre-Series A. Our check sizes range from $500,000 to $3 million. Our seed is probably $1 million to $2 million, but we’ve also done $3 million and $500,000. 

538th Roundtable Recording with Ben Narasin, Tenacity Venture Capital

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Roundtable Recap: July 15 – The Definition of Success is Personal

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ben Narasin, Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital, a new Seed fund.

Agricoltura

As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Davide Balbi, from Cassino, Italy, pitching Agricoltura, a farming venture.

PontApp

Next, we had Charvi Garg from New Delhi, India, pitching the PontApp, a scheduling app that she needs to position more precisely.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Karthee Madasamy, Founder and Managing Partner at Mobile Foundation Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Your portfolio is almost entirely enterprise-focused companies, right? You do B2B enterprise businesses?

Karthee Madasamy: That is correct. 

Sramana Mitra: Let me underscore what you are saying. When we started getting into this COVID mode of doing business, the buyers were not used to buying technology just based on a Zoom meeting. This is true unless it is a small deal size telesales-oriented sales flow.

537th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot – Part II

Dharmesh Shah, Founder and CTO of HubSpot, discusses his entrepreneurial journey with candor, humility, and generosity. Wonderful conversation, this is Part II.

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537th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot – Part I

Dharmesh Shah, Founder and CTO of HubSpot, discusses his entrepreneurial journey with candor, humility, and generosity. Wonderful conversation, this is Part I.

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