Roundtable Recap: April 16 – Global Entrepreneurship Continues Amidst Pandemic

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Joshua Posamentier, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Congruent Ventures, a firm focused on sustainability oriented technology ventures.

Mark N Park
As for entrepreneur pitches, Sanket Thodge from Pune, India, pitched the Mark N Park app, a parking
optimization solution.

VacaShopping.com
Next, we had Matias Larroulet from Buenos Aires, Argentina, pitching VacaShopping.com, a B-to-B marketplace for the oil and gas sector in Vaca Muerta, a province of Argentina.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Darshana Zaveri of Catalyst Health Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Given that you are in a sector that is very relevant to what we are going through right now, what do you see is going to happen? There is a furious effort to come up with all kinds of testing devices with coronavirus and testing for antibodies of who has already gotten it. All these are medical device problems.

There is, of course, the vaccine side, but there is a big medical device issue that is developing. How do you process what’s happening?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Darshana Zaveri of Catalyst Health Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is the go-to market strategy for this company? What is your investment thesis around go-to market strategies? You mentioned early on that these companies don’t necessarily go to market on their own.

Darshana Zaveri: This company did exit. It was bought out in 2018 by Boston Scientific. We did the seed round and led the Series A. We had a new investor come in to lead the Series B.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Darshana Zaveri of Catalyst Health Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What about geography? You’re based in the Boston area. Where do you like to invest?

Darshana Zaveri: We’re pretty broad across the US. We’re a very small team ourselves. We’re two Managing Partners and a few folks in the back office. We tend to be New England focused just because of our location and where we tend to operate.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Darshana Zaveri of Catalyst Health 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 Darshana Zaveri was recorded in April 2020.

Darshana Zaveri, Managing Partner at Catalyst Health Ventures, discusses the firm’s medical device-focused investment thesis, including the nuances of epidemiologic diagnostics that are currently immensely relevant. The Catalyst investment team also includes Managing Partner Josh Phillips and Principal Neil Swami.

480th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ritesh Agarwal, CerraCap Ventures

Ritesh Agarwal is Co-founder and Managing Director at CerraCap Ventures, a deep tech focused early stage firm.

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480th Roundtable Recording on April 9, 2020: With Ritesh Agarwal, CerraCap Ventures

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Roundtable Recap: April 9 – Business as Usual

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ritesh Agarwal, Co-founder and Managing Director CerraCap Ventures, a deep tech focused early stage firm.

Ecoin
As for entrepreneur pitches, we had Abhyuday Das and Krishna Yogi from Bangalore, India, pitching Ecoin, a
cryptocurrency venture.

DepartDiscount
Next, Zoe Frantzeskakis from East Lansing, Michigan, pitched DepartDiscount, an app to help short-term rental hosts differentiate.

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