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Interviews July 24, 2020

Herty Tammo (Startup Wise Guys): We invest at early stage, where the team is the most important feature of a startup.

Herty Tammo is Co-Founder and General Partner at Startup Wise Guys. He started as entrepreneur in 1995 and established 5 companies with 150 investors involved. He started investing in the technology sector in 2007. He co-founded Startup Wise Guys business accelerator and helped to raise funds and develop 185+ companies accross CEE.

Interviews July 21, 2020

Laura Orestano (SocialFare Center): Social innovation is not only designing new models, products and services, but also creating social enterprises and social changes.

Interviews July 17, 2020

Alain Dib (Knuru Capital): We like serial entrepreneurs, and we tend to invest in companies that have an unfair advantage, something that gives them an edge.

Interviews July 13, 2020

Jorge Dobon Montagut (Demium): We have created from scratch 450 teams in 7 years, about 180 - the last year.

Interviews July 9, 2020

Andreas Winiarski (awesome capital): I hope that every company we invest will become a unicorn.

Analytics July 6, 2020

VC vs COVID-19: how investors react to ongoing financial crisis

Interviews July 3, 2020

Andrew Romans (7BC Venture Capital & Rubicon Venture): Our basic rule is if we cannot add value, we will not invest

Interviews June 28, 2020

Giusy Cannone (Fashion Technology Accelerator): We invest only in the fashion industry vertical, and we are looking for digital startups, introducing B2C and B2B innovations.

Interviews June 28, 2020

Whitney Sales (Acceleprise): We want people who have indicators of perseverance and who are passionate about the space and the market

Interviews June 26, 2020

Seth Levine (Foundry Group): We occasionally start businesses ourselves, when we have an idea we like and can find a management team for realisation.

Interviews June 25, 2020

Bill Trainor (Mutual Capital Partners): Even with the best technology, you have to have a world-class management team and a board of directors around them

Interviews June 19, 2020

Gerard Casale (TYLT Ventures): We’re really interested in anything that's got great momentum, big enough market and best people.

Interviews June 15, 2020

SC Moatti (Mighty Capital): Don’t try to be different because what is going to make you stand out is the quality of your team, the size of the problem you’re solving, the defensibility of your solution and your revenue traction

Interviews June 14, 2020

Csaba Konkoly (Tiller Partners): Mostly we want to see domain expertise. I'm looking for cognitive diversity, for people that play nice together.

Interviews June 12, 2020

Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Group): We're a global firm. We have 10 accelerators: in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Australia, Singapore, US.

Interviews June 7, 2020

Ash Fontana (Zetta Venture Partners): We enter at the seed stage. We like to be the the first and most important partner of the company.

Interviews June 4, 2020

Valerie Red-Horse Mohl (Social Venture Circle): Our criteria are very strong on impact, but we also expect the financial return, this is not a philanthropic giving

Interviews June 2, 2020

Anurag Chandra (Fort Ross): We’re not conservative, we’re not aggressive, we’re Fort Ross, we’re no different today than we were before COVID started

Interviews May 30, 2020

Peter Rojas (Betaworks Ventures): We are really focused on people who can build. We are builders and we build products and lead teams who build products to scale.

Interviews May 24, 2020

Julie Maples (FYRFLY Venture Partners): We invest in data, intelligence and enterprise software that is not really sexy part of the market.

Interviews May 21, 2020

Sergey Gribov (Flint Capital): Nobody in the normal mind would invest in a company that has more chances to fail than to succeed, but that’s what we do

Interviews May 20, 2020

Phil Nadel (Forefront Venture Partners): We're not working to hit Grand Slams every time we invest, we’re happy with hitting doubles and triples with occasional home runs.

Analytics May 18, 2020

Survival strategies for startups during the crisis

Interviews May 17, 2020

Riyad Abou Jaoudeh (MEVP): Our fund is focused on the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey region.

Interviews May 15, 2020

Matthew C. Le Merle (Fifth Era & Keiretsu Capital): We are working very hard on supporting teams that are transitioning the world to a digital world