Fireside with a VC

Episode #19 - Fireside with a VC – Harrie Vollaard, founder and Managing Director of Rabo Frontier Ventures, talking about best practices of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC), Fund of Fund (FoF) + direct investment strategy, strategic vs financial returns, how to manage the separation of Corporate Development / M&A and investments / CVC, coming up with frameworks to agree on investment themes with the Board of Directors of the bank and heads of Business Units (BUs), how to smoothly manage a CVC Investment Committee (IC), delivering real value to startups, leveraging assets of the bank and creating partnerships among BUs and portfolio companies. Video: https://youtu.be/n5jvPCLTFJ4

Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite.

Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ. 

[email protected]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #18 Fireside with a VC – Eran Davidson, founder of venture debt firm Davidson Technology Growth Debt in Berlin. Former founder of Hasso Plattner Ventures, the venture arm of the cofounder and former chairman of SAP. As of August 2020, Forbes reported that he possessed a net worth of $17.9 billion. Eran explains how venture debt works, when to take it, what percentage of a funding round should be venture debt, how to minimize dilution to founders and existing investors, what interest rates to expect, how much warrant coverage, supply vs demand for venture debt in Europe, who are the major players in Europe, trade offs of debt, dilution, risk, performance of the venture debt asset class, default rates, how Europe is evolving, the impact of Bexit on Berlin and other European capitals and how what to discuss next. We even discuss his VC fund he and Hasso Plattner founded in Africa 12 years ago. https://davidson-capital.com/

Full video https://youtu.be/bqUdWHfCeHg.

Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite.

Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ. 

[email protected]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #17 Fireside with a VC – Marcus Frampton, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, the largest sovereign wealth fund in the United States. Talking about how to manage such a large pool of capital, allocations to different asset classes and strategies to balance the fund during Covid and other fluctuations in the market, the IPO markets, domestic and emerging publicly traded equities, the OTC and micro-cap markets, real estate, fixed income, private credit, infrastructure, hedge funds, PE, VC and direct co-investments and how to grow the value of the permanent fund for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite.

Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ. 

[email protected]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Refreshing conversation with Sammy, a VC in Dallas Texas, about a very down to Earth approach to Venture Capital and the innovative way he started and has grown his venture capital business with a new fund every year. https://youtu.be/ZZmY0cC01-U. Full audio on all major podcast platforms. Search Spotify, iTunes, etc. “Fireside with a VC” 

Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite.

Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ. 

[email protected]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Episode #15 – Sean Seton-Rogers, cofounder of ProFounders Capital - Fireside with a VC – London VC, Former Benchmark Capital Europe / Balderton. Talking about founding ProFounders Capital and its initial launch strategy, current position in the UK & European venture landscape, portfolio construction and investment strategy, the impact of Brexit, how ProFounders delivers value to startups, IRR vs cash-on-cash multiples, the evolution of the British and European startup and venture ecosystem and absolute performance. Follow “Fireside with a VC” and watch video @ https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC. 

Find Sean at https://www.profounderscapital.com/.

Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite.

Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ. 

[email protected]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Bryan Ciambella Partner at Antler in New York talking about working at B Capital Group, working with Eduardo Saverin co-founder of Facebook, Boston Consulting Group, CVC, the Samwer Brothers at Rocket Internet, New York vs LA for startups and VC and the impact of SPACs. Video at https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC. 

Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite.

Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ. 

[email protected]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Talking about the early days of VC in Silicon Valley, cofounding Draper Johnson with Bill Draper, working with Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia, Tom Perkins, cofounder of Kleiner Perkins and Brook Byers, who worked for Pitch before becoming the “B” in KPCB. VC advisor in Central and Eastern Europe. Great advice and wisdom for all of us.  Full video on “Fireside with a VC” https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC

Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite.

Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ. 

[email protected]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Talking about the evolution of SPACs, IPOs, secondaries, liquidity and investing in growth tech ventures.

Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite.

Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ. 

[email protected]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Talking about launching MVPs and bootstrapping startups, recruiting advisors, initial angel investors, solo founder vs team of cofounders, how to deal with evolving MVPs and initial customers, raising capital over Zoom and investing over Zoom, how to select your VC and dealing with running out of cash. Great other VCs on the panel with me. 

Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite.

Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ. 

[email protected]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.

Jason Calacanis, legendary Silicon Valley angel investor from LAUNCH, first or first-5 investor in Uber, Calm, Robinhood, Wealthfront, Datastax, Thumbtack, Fitbod and Desktop Metal as well as my co-investor in a number of companies including Superhuman talking about the good, the bad and the ugly of Silicon Valley investing.

Please use this link to invest in our VC fund on Angel List: https://angel.co/lead/sevenbc/lp-network/invite.

Please use this link to join our Syndicate on Angel List: https://angel.co/s/sevenbc/ZZAgQ. 

[email protected]

Subscribe to our YouTube channel Fireside with a VC to hear us talking with the world's top founders and VCs who are changing the world building amazing companies one brick at a time. You can also find us on all major podcast platforms here: https://anchor.fm/FiresideVC.