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Interviews

Insights and updates from across the team
Interviews January 19, 2021

William Goulding (Arbor Ventures): We’re a global fund, interested in SEA, Middle East and Israel, and the US.

William Goulding is FinTech VC Analyst at Arbor Ventures. Before joining Arbor, he founded Skipiit during his final year of college, a Fintech and AdTech platform that significantly boosted revenue at hospitality venues. He raised $400k from angels and scaled the platform from Washington DC to New York. Since then, he has helped source exciting US and UK startups for an Asian private equity firm. He brings a passion for technology and real startup operating experience.

Interviews January 18, 2021

Maciej Sadowski (StarFinder Capital Fund): Before you meet an investor make three evenings long sessions of understanding your market. It is simple and requires only Google. Sometimes it costs $15 but usually, it is $0

Interviews January 15, 2021

Basil Moftah (Global Ventures): We look at companies in the Middle East and Africa. Sometimes we look at the US, Asian, and European companies expanding into the region.

Interviews December 24, 2020

Marc Penkala (Mountain Partners): Never go alone. Surround yourself with people which are better than you

Interviews December 23, 2020

Damien Lane (Episode 1 Ventures): Hire ahead of the growth of your company. Hire business leaders earlier than you think you should do, because you need people with experience of managing 50 people

Interviews December 22, 2020

Raphael Christian-Roy (Front Row Ventures at Real Ventures): We have AI companies that are optimizing drug development, and we have a startup that develops a new type of fuel to send microsatellites in orbit.

Interviews December 21, 2020

Václav Gregor (Soulmates Ventures): If people are seeing things as negative, then it's time to step back and think about why do they feel like things are bad. Because they never are

Interviews December 15, 2020

Jason Peterson (Godigital Media Group): We have 3 pillars - core intellectual property investments, where we are buying the underlying copyrights in music, then we have a networks division and e-commerce division.

Interviews December 14, 2020

Oh-hyoung Kwon (FuturePlay): We always look not for what customers might look for in the next month or two above, but for what will change our lives in the next 5-10 years

Interviews December 11, 2020

Hsien-Hui Tong (SGInnovate): The first thing we look at is not even technology - it’s the market opportunity

Interviews December 7, 2020

Dmitry Chikhachev (Runa Capital): We mainly enter at Series A, when a company is making some first revenues which solve a massive and painful problem.

Interviews November 30, 2020

Stephen Chandler (Notion Capital): The qualities that we're looking for in teams are some real ambition and a desire to change the world.

Interviews November 27, 2020

Jörg Rheinboldt (APX): We don’t look at industries, we look at the market horizontally. We invest in everything that's digital as long as we understand it.

Interviews November 20, 2020

Tom Kelly (IDEO and Design for Ventures): We have a team of venture capitalists in the startup community in Japan all the time and we are always looking for things.

Interviews November 16, 2020

Cindy Padnos (Illuminate Ventures): We tend to invest in teams and companies that are a little bit further along versus raw startup.

Interviews November 12, 2020

Cristian Dascalu (GapMinder VC): focus a lot on testing and validation before doing other actions. That will save a ton of time in the future

Interviews November 11, 2020

David Blivin (Cottonwood): Our focus is the early founding stage of hard science-related companies - Materials, Robotics, Photonics, Energy.

Interviews November 10, 2020

Georgi Mitov (BrightCap Ventures): We look in the long run and make sure there is a win-win setup between the investors and founders

Interviews November 9, 2020

Tomer Michaeli (Viola FinTech): We understand that in order to build big companies you need to be patient, you have to wait, you have to persevere, and this is the DNA of our group

Interviews November 2, 2020

Agate Freimane (Norrsken VC): We’re looking for impact tech startups that have a positive impact on people and/or the planet.

Interviews October 30, 2020

Thiago Rodrigues (The Craftory): We only invest in fast-moving customer goods.

Interviews October 29, 2020

Peter Lasinger (3VC): I love what I do and I am really lucky to be in a spot where I could work with the most inspiring and ambitious people

Interviews October 28, 2020

David Millar (TechX Accelerator of The Oil & Gas Technology Centre ): We are focused purely on new technologies for the UK oil and gas sector

Interviews October 26, 2020

Heidi Roizen (Threshold Ventures): On average our investment period is somewhere around 6-7 years. It's longer than the average marriage in the United States. Take your VCs very carefully

Interviews October 23, 2020

Robert Siegel (XSeed Capital and Piva): Investing in companies that are doing some very progressive things