508th Roundtable Recording on November 5, 2020: With Keith Bank, KB Partners

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Roundtable Recap: November 5 – Spotlight on Indian Startups, as America Counts Votes

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Keith Bank, Founder CEO at KB Partners, a venture firm focused on sports technology.

SafeNet

As for entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Joginder Singh from Haryana, India, pitched SafeNet – an Internet Service Provider (ISP) for the Indian market. The company is already in revenue.

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505th Roundtable Recording on October 15, 2020: With Elizabeth Yin, Hustle Fund

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505th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Elizabeth Yin, Hustle Fund

Elizabeth Yin is General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed investment firm.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mike Edelhart of Social Starts and Joyance Partners (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Since you’re talking about personal health as the current focus and we are in this immense public health crisis, what is your analysis? How do you process the current environment?

Mike Edelhart: At the highest level, we’re geeks. We’re data people, which means we can’t look back in history and know exactly what’s going to happen here. All we can do is look at what we can see.

Roundtable Recap: October 15 – Brainstorming Post Covid Startup Ideas

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Elizabeth Yin, General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed investment firm.

Relefant

As for our entrepreneur pitch, this week we had Marko Lauhiala from Helsinki, Finland, pitching Relefant.

In addition, we had a great brainstorming session around one of my ideas from 8 Startup Ideas for the Post-Covid World around travel:

Facilitating Travel Experiences

There are two major trends that the world will need to take in stride in the Covid era: air travel will become expensive and people will be working remotely. The startup idea addressing these trends as explained here would be a $5-$10 Billion market cap company, a Unicorn.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mike Edelhart of Social Starts and Joyance Partners (Part 3)

Mike Edelhart: The second is science and technology. We’re deep science oriented. The ideas we hear from the entrepreneur on day one won’t be the ideas by which the company actually succeeds. It’s all delineated by change and unexpected circumstances.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mike Edelhart of Social Starts and Joyance Partners (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Social Starts and Joyance Partners are two separate funds. What are the fund sizes?

Mike Edelhart: We are about $70 million all in. We will be more than doubling in size. We are investing out of Social Starts fund four which is just under $20 million. Social Starts is about $50 million all-in across the funds.