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Insights and updates from across the team
Interviews February 4, 2022

Duncan Davidson (Bullpen Capital): In Silicon Valley failure is a feature, not a bug.

Duncan Davidson is General Partner at Bullpen Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur known for many successful projects. He served as the SVP of Business Development at InterTrust and led the IPO in 1999 and the secondary in 2000. He spent four years as a managing director at VantagePoint Venture Partners where he focused on digital media and telecom investments including Widevine (acquired by Google) and Livescribe. Prior to Bullpen, he co-founded one of the first mobile social app companies, Xumii, later sold to Myriad Group. At Bullpen he focuses on SaaS and IoT investments, and is an advisor to or sits on the boards of Grin, Hologram, Ripplematch, Wheels, GoodTime, Barn2Door and Skywatch.

Interviews January 28, 2022

Gilman Louie (Alsop Louie Partners): The most powerful thing about venture capital is that it is filled with optimistic people.

Interviews January 20, 2022

Ashesh Shah (The London Fund): Be Brave!

Interviews November 30, 2021

Wal van Lierop (Chrysalix): We are more than just a financial investor; we are a very active contributor to scaling up companies.

Interviews November 5, 2021

Warner Philips (Rubio Impact Ventures): Don’t just do it because you think there is a market opportunity, do it because you believe it solves a problem that is close to your heart.

Interviews October 29, 2021

Brett Martin (Charge Ventures): This is my dream job - being an entrepreneur and being an investor.

Interviews October 28, 2021

Peter Harris (University Growth Fund): When you do the hard things, it’s very impressive because VCs know that those things are hard and it will give them more conviction to back you.

Interviews October 26, 2021

Scott Nissenbaum (Ben Franklin Technology Partners): We do encourage companies to look at the social aspects - what is the social good of this business, how does it make the world a better place, how can you measure this good by whether it is hiring people from my disadvantaged background or curing a disease.

Interviews October 18, 2021

Fabian Sacharowitz (EIT InnoEnergy): the energy transition is one of the most important and striking megatrends that we are seeing right now globally

Interviews October 8, 2021

Emanuele Levi (360 Capital): Our history of finding successful companies that we have been able to support since their very early days and have worked with for many years speaks for itself

Interviews October 4, 2021

Renana Ashkenazi (Grove Ventures): To be a good VC, you have to be curious and comfortable with making decisions when there are more unknowns than knowns.

Interviews September 30, 2021

Harry Haeck (SmartFin): We prefer to have a limited number of investments we can support decently rather than a large portfolio.

Interviews September 28, 2021

Kai Chen (OceanIQ Capital): Investing is the ability to participate in the success of an entrepreneur without being in the trenches

Interviews September 24, 2021

Rishi Garg (Mayfield Fund): We’ll try to be the most trusted, consistent, and powerful partner that our companies have.

Interviews September 21, 2021

Jacek Łubiński (Market One Capital): listen to your potential clients a lot to nail the value proposition and provide an experience which is ten times better than what they have right now.

Interviews September 20, 2021

George Spencer III (Seyen Capital): You go to a war with these guys, and I just love the battle!

Interviews September 2, 2021

Adrian Lloyd (Episode 1 Ventures): We want to see people who clearly could get extremely highly paid jobs in other technology firms, but have chosen this one.

Interviews August 31, 2021

Peter Redford (Band of Angels): Talking to investors is not that easy - you need to be on different levels of abstraction when you talk to them than what you normally operate on.

Interviews August 27, 2021

Christie Pitts (Backstage Capital): People who are not actively doing something about their networks to include diversity will be left behind.

Interviews August 17, 2021

Neeraj Vohra (Naples Technology Ventures): The biggest surprise is the number of interesting companies you can see in a week, and some weeks it could be non-stop.

Interviews August 12, 2021

Thomas Wisniewski (RosePaul Investments and Newark Newark Venture Partners): Every company is unique but the situations and things they are going through are 90% the same.

Interviews August 10, 2021

Amos Ben-Meir (Sand Hill Angels): As an entrepreneur or investor, it's always better to be transparent and honest

Interviews July 30, 2021

David Gardner (Cofounders Capital): We have a joke that if we don't understand something in the first 2 minutes, we won’t invest.

Interviews July 23, 2021

Lee Greene (HealthInc): The health industry is very complex - we call it “tripod”, that has to have 3 legs in order to stand up.

Interviews July 19, 2021

Steve Berg (Lytical Ventures): I would sadly say that I haven't really invested in crazy or exotic things, but my normal world and companies there are super interesting.