489th Roundtable Recording on June 11, 2020: With Vincent Diallo, Interlace Ventures

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Roundtable Recap: June 11 – Spotlight on Retail Tech

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Vincent Diallo, Managing Partner at Interlace Ventures, a fund focused on Retail Tech.

Yotta Secure
As for entrepreneur pitches, first up was Sunil Ravipati from Santa Clara, California, pitch Yotta Secure, a Healthcare IT venture.

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Next Demba Sow from Alsace, France, pitched Hodi Hodi, a language learning venture focused on African languages.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nick Adams of Differential Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’ve been in this industry for a long time, and I’ve seen a few cycles. When we see discontinuities, every VC firm goes through a process of considering that discontinuity and developing a thesis around what kinds of companies should be doing well in this environment.

We just discussed one of your companies that is a perfect example. Do you have a broader thesis on the kinds of companies you’re looking for? Our community is full of entrepreneurs.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nick Adams of Differential Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was Ocrolus doing that was brilliant?

Nick Adams: I can’t share all of that, but they’ve done a couple of things around how they structure their team both on a technology front-end of things and in their back-end operations in India.

They can take a bank statement from somebody looking to get a loan and turn that around in a matter of minutes with 99% accuracy at a very low cost. It’s a very tight integration between the technologies that they’re using. 

488th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Pamela York, Atasi Ventures

Pamela York is Founder and CEO, Atasi Ventures, with a special focus on women entrepreneurs in healthcare.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nick Adams of Differential Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Double-click down a little bit on what kinds of businesses. You said enterprise and data science. Can you add some color?

Nick Adams: I would break it down to three categories. We’re broadly looking at the future of work. Specifically, how data and data science can change the way businesses operate today. The opportunity is still very large. It’s still at the early days of making information actionable.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nick Adams of Differential 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 Nick Adams was recorded in April 2020.

Nick Adams is Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Differential Ventures, an enterprise-focused firm. We discuss counter-cyclical ventures in this COVID-19 world.

488th Roundtable Recording on June 4, 2020: With Pamela York, Atasi Ventures

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