1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Deborah Quazzo of GSV Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Our interest is primarily in actual seed and Series A. Let’s focus on that discussion. What do you like to see by way of proof points before you’re willing to write a check?

Deborah Quazzo: It’s interesting because we’re sector experts and we’ve been working in education technology for well over 20 years. I have a partner in Silicon Valley, Michael Moe, who wrote the original thesis for a Wall Street investment category around digital education in the mid-1990s.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Deborah Quazzo of GSV 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 Deborah Quazzo was recorded in June 2020.

Deborah Quazzo is Managing Partner at GSV Ventures, a fund focused on online education ventures. This is a very good discussion on patterns of success and failure in the sector and what investors are gravitating towards.

496th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Julianne Zimmerman, Reinventure Capital

Julianne Zimmerman is Managing Director at Reinventure Capital, a firm focused on minority founders.

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496th Roundtable Recording on July 30, 2020: With Julianne Zimmerman, Reinventure Capital

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Roundtable Recap: July 30 – Spotlight on Minority Founders

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Julianne Zimmerman, Managing Director at Reinventure Capital, a firm focused on minority founders.

Scribando
As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Albert Griesmayr from Vienna, Austria, pitch Scribando, a book marketing service.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vincent Diallo of Interlace Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I think COVID has changed the dynamics to weigh heavier on e-commerce and online shopping. If you had to choose one channel, you need to be digital more than the local and physical.

I think this is a very big shift and as you said rightly, I think this is a five-year shift that has happened in five weeks. 

495th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Sonali Vijayavargiya, Augment Ventures

Sonali Vijayavargiya, Founder and Managing Partner at Augment Ventures, discusses her firm’s investment approach, including early exits.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vincent Diallo of Interlace Ventures (Part 3)

Vincent Diallo: I could also mention Singuli, which is an investment we did in January. They’re active in forecasting with the first end goal in fashion that is also touching FMCG somehow. We suffered this pain as an operator. We know the risk in that inventory in terms of performance of the company.

One of the permanent questions was, “How do we improve the quality of our forecast?” What we did for them is exactly in line with our approach and positioning. Something I did not mention is that Interlace is not only focused on the investment space but is also verticalized in a way.