William McQuillan is a founding partner of Frontline Ventures. This is the second part of a two-part episode with William. If you haven't done it yet, we strongly recommend you go back and listen to our previous episode with William on Frontline's investment theses and how they support founders. In this episode we focus on firm building. Specifically how William built Frontline and took it from an Irish focused firm to a firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic.

** In this episode you will learn **

• How William perceives the funding environment in Europe, compared to the US.
• How Frontline collaborates with its LPs in adding value to their portfolio companies.
• The importance of VC firm building from William's perspective and how he believes it contributed to Frontline's success.
• Why William believes VCs should be more rigorous in their use of data to find deals