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Insights and updates from across the team
Interviews August 26, 2020

Jessica Rameau (Wellstreet): I don't think you should do what you love. I think you should do what you are good at

Jessica Rameau is a British-French investment professional, with experience in supporting fast-growing businesses. She’s currently a Partner at Wellstreet, a Stockholm-based super-active early stage investor, which has been part of creating successes like Tibber, DanAds, Regily, Scrive, and roughly 30 more companies. Lately, they have been recognized for opening The Factory, the 14,000+ sqm glass building on the outskirts of Stockholm, becoming the biggest innovation and tech hub in the Nordics.

Interviews August 25, 2020

Rick Segal (Rethink Capital Partners): We favor technology SaaS companies because we want the impact that we make to be scalable, and technology solutions are the ones that scale the most from the smallest investment dollar

Interviews August 21, 2020

Jessica Liu (AppWorks): We focus on Founders’ characteristics

Interviews August 11, 2020

Shigeru Handa (AAIC): We are investing in the Healthcare sector, we are a Healthcare fund in Africa

Interviews August 8, 2020

Vanessa Larco (New Enterprise Associates): Before investing I have to play with a product, I have to believe there's a real strong focus on the customers and their needs and those people will love using it.

Interviews August 7, 2020

Michele Novelli (Digital Magics): We Invest In Companies That Make Things Happen!

Interviews July 31, 2020

Fabian Westerheide (Asgard): I consider companies who do customer support and customer communication.

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.

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.

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.