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Insights and updates from across the team
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

Sergey Gribov is a partner at Flint Capital with a rich experience of being a tech entrepreneur and investor for more than 20 years. He was a founder and a top manager in more than 10 startups across Israel, USA and Russia. Sergey has an expertise in IT, namely in cybersecurity, software development, VoIP, finance and bioinformatics sectors.

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.

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

Interviews May 11, 2020

Sasha Mirchandani (Kae Capital): VC is pretty much like basketball: there are only 6 people playing, but there are always a bunch of people involved.

Interviews May 5, 2020

Hernán Fernández Lamadrid (Angel Ventures): I think that this COVID crisis will be a very important test for many founders, and a capability to survive will guide them through the rest of their founding life

Interviews April 29, 2020

Venktesh Shukla (Monta Vista Capital): In Silicon Valley we don't say “failures,” we say “valuable learning opportunities.”

Interviews April 26, 2020

Keith Teare (Accelerated Digital Ventures): A startup has to be a believable transformative idea, that is practical now.

Interviews April 22, 2020

David Hornik (August Capital): Startup is a group of people, that hopefully gets bigger, so you need people who can inspire, pursuing something big and interesting that hopefully gets bigger

Interviews April 21, 2020

Ira Weiss (Hyde Park Venture Partners): “Entrepreneurs need to know their market really well and have a compelling value proposition”

Interviews April 15, 2020

Patrick Polak (Newion Investments): I am a very optimistic person and I always look for the opportunity and growth, because growth is in my DNA

Interviews April 14, 2020

Vijay Tirathrai (Techstars): “We don’t incubate ideas, we accelerate a proven viable product”

Interviews April 6, 2020

Enis Hulli (500 Startups): “We only invest into entrepreneurs who we feel like they are smarter than us”

Interviews March 31, 2020

Sanjay Nath (Blume Ventures): We are focused on the India market, but we welcome various opportiunities.

Interviews March 30, 2020

Tarek Assaad (Algebra Ventures): “In the context of Egypt we like businesses that are very local”

Interviews March 30, 2020

Brian Dixon (Capital Innovators): We are looking for companies solving something a lot of people really challenged with, even while it is not a sexiest business

Interviews March 26, 2020

Chad Stender (Seventysix Capital): Seventysix Capital is a Venture Capital Fund focused on Esports, Sports Betting and The Digitalization of Sports

Interviews March 25, 2020

Wael Amin (Sawari Ventures): “We are looking for self-aware teams that have a realistic view of what they know and what they need to improve”

Interviews March 21, 2020

Walid Mansour (MEVP): We are looking for startups on Series A or Series B stage

Interviews March 18, 2020

Dr. Jeffrey Chi (Vickers Venture Partners): We find technologies that make a difference and solve very big problems

Interviews March 17, 2020

Marcin Szeląg (Innovation Nest): A sweet spot for us would be a company with 10 to 20 people, product is already on the market, and there is some initial traction in customers and sales.

Interviews March 10, 2020

Carman Chan (Click Ventures): We invest starting from the seed stage. For a few companies we follow up to Series B.

Interviews February 28, 2020

Paolo Pio (Joyance Partners): We have infrastructure and algorithms to scrap the web for interesting projects.

Interviews February 24, 2020

Marc Rougier (Elaia): Venture capital is like a game of go: you start with an empty board, make early investments, win something, lose something and at the end create something new

Interviews February 20, 2020

Sergiu Negut (Fintech OS): A startup has to be something concrete, with specific client in mind and having clear business traction sense