Episode #22 – Hillel Zidel, MD, Kennet Partners closed $250m fund V in July of 2020 on Fireside with a VC. Growth capital for B2B software companies in the US, UK and across Europe. Investing in bootstrapped companies typically with $5m to $15m, but officially looking at $3m to $50m in revenue at the time of investing check size of $10m to $20m. Discussing the logic of venture debt from Hillel's former time at ETV, a venture lending firm, discussing logic of founders taking cash off the table via secondaries, portfolio construction, types of technologies most excited about, software multiples driving valuations, public markets driving M&A of growth venture deals, dynamics of doing venture financings and M&A exit deals over zoom and face to face meetings during covid, board seats, Brexit and life in London. Full video https://youtu.be/mh7k6YpWlow. [email protected]