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Capital Call #48
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Arnaud Baraer 🇫🇷 of XAnge writes about his firm’s investment in Airfocus and the benefits of being 100% product-focused: Long live the product teams!
Harry Briggs 🇬🇧 of OMERS Ventures dissects his firm’s investment in Lick, showing the ingredients needed for a category-defining brand: Redefining a category: our investment in Lick.
Nicolas Colin 🇫🇷 of The Family points out that billions have been invested in grocery delivery startups in Q1. What does it mean? How much is too much when investing in grocery delivery?
Louis Coppey 🇫🇷 of Point Nine Capital writes about his firm’s latest investment and reflects on a design-centric approach to the product analytics market: Some June news.
Jonathan Eade 🇬🇧, who works for a family office, and Christian Walter 🇩🇪 of SDGx write that VCs need to do more when it comes to having an impact: VCs, stop figuring out how to measure impact — start having some.
Pierre Entremont 🇫🇷 of Frst makes a statement: we need more crypto entrepreneurs! Read it all in The Crypto Fellowship by Frst & Fabric: 10 x 100k to create 10 crypto entrepreneurs “from scratch”.
Luciana Lixandru 🇷🇴 and George Robson 🇬🇧 of Sequoia Capital tell about Pennylane: Bringing Europe’s Small Businesses and Accountants into the 21st Century.
Seth Pierrepont 🇬🇧 from Accel “The sooner you can define the culture and communicate it to people the better”—Supercell's Ilkka Paananen
Carmen Alfonso Rico 🇪🇸 of Blossom Capital shares tips for founders who want to be successful at fundraising: Debut Sessions Live — Hacking your first round of funding.
Lily Shaw 🇬🇧 of OMERS Ventures just published part 2 of her series about the convergence between public and private markets: Blurring lines II: public & private markets.
Konstantin Sinyushin 🇱🇻 of The Untitled Ventures writes about raising capital that matters, that is, the capital brought by friends, family, and fools: What is FFF-money and Do You Need Them?
Sifted has a comprehensive piece about the London-based Firstminute Capital, featuring many team members and starting with Brent Hoberman 🇿🇦🇬🇧: 100 unicorn founders back London-based VC fund Firstminute Capital
Saul Klein 🇬🇧🇿🇦 of LocalGlobe answers The Family’s Nicolas Colin 🇫🇷’s questions about his investment thesis and his vision of Europe’s future: The New Palo Alto w/ Saul Klein 🎧
Arnaud Baraer 🇫🇷 Associate, Xange, Munich 🇩🇪 LinkedIn
Harry Briggs 🇬🇧 Managing Partner, OMERS Ventures, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Nicolas Colin 🇫🇷 Co-Founder & Director, The Family, Munich 🇩🇪 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Louis Coppey 🇫🇷 Partner, Point Nine Capital, Paris 🇫🇷 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Jonathan Eade 🇬🇧 Consultant Investment Manager, Family Office 🇩🇪 LinkedIn
Pierre Entremont 🇫🇷 Co-Founder and Partner, Frst, Paris 🇫🇷 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Brent Hoberman 🇿🇦🇬🇧 Co-Founder & General Partner, First Minute Capital, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Saul Klein 🇿🇦🇬🇧Co-Founder, LocalGlobe, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
Luciana Lixandru 🇷🇴 Partner, Sequoia Capital, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Seth Pierrepont 🇬🇧 Partner, Accel, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Carmen Alfonso Rico 🇪🇸 Partner, Blossom Capital, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog
George Robson 🇬🇧 Partner, Sequoia Capital, London 🇬🇧 Twitter
Lily Shaw 🇬🇧 Associate Investor, OMERS Ventures, London 🇬🇧 LinkedIn | Twitter
Konstantin Siniushin 🇱🇻 Managing Partner, The Untitled Ventures, Riga, 🇱🇻 LinkedIn
Christian Walter 🇩🇪 Founding Partner, SDGx, Berlin 🇩🇪 LinkedIn | Twitter