Insights by Angular Ventures

Angular Insights podcast episode, led by Jennifer Schear, Founding Partner at Schear Immigration Law Firm, on US immigration best practices for founders.

During the session, Jennifer discusses recent US immigration trends and updates and best practices for short and long term planning for tech founders from initial relocation through permanent residence and beyond.

Angular Insights podcast episode led by Kasper Hulthin. Kasper co-founded Podio (acquired by Citrix) and Peakon (acquired by Workday). He is now the co-founder of Future Five, where he’s an active entrepreneur and investor in a handful of companies. Among other things, he is currently the Chairman of Normative.io, a Swedish company that is building an emissions accounting platform.

Angular Insights podcast episode led by Stijn "Stan" Christiaens, Co-Founder and Chief Data Citizen of Collibra, on the evolution of Collibra's product positioning and how they successfully created a category.

Stan currently leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for their customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales, Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education.

Angular Insights episode led by Jason Green, on the lessons learned from investing early in over a dozen SaaS unicorns.

Jason is a Founding General Partner of Emergence, the first early-stage venture firm focused entirely on the enterprise cloud. The firm has been an early investor in companies such as Salesforce.com, Veeva, Box, Bill.com, Doximity, SuccessFactors, Yammer, Gusto, ServiceMax, SalesLoft and many others. Currently, Jason serves on the Boards of ASAPP, BetterWorks, Drishti, Lotame and Oyster and as a board observer at Gusto and G2.

Jason was named to the Forbes Top 100 Venture Capitalists Midas List and has served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association. Jason also served as Chairman of the West Coast Research Center for Harvard Business School and on the advisory board of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.

During his Insights session, Jason shares insightful stories and lessons from his experience investing in SaaS unicorns, including Salesforce, SuccessFactors, Box, Gusto, SalesLoft, ServiceMax, Veeva, Bill.com, Doximity, Yammer and Zoom among others.

Angular Insights episode led by Oren Kaniel, Co-Founder & CEO of AppsFlyer, on the importance of culture and values as you scale a business.

Oren founded AppsFlyer a decade ago to solve one of the major problems in the mobile apps market – mobile analytics and user attribution.

During his Insights session, Oren discussed how he built a true unicorn in a challenging market against huge competitors - by building a people-first culture.

Angular Insights episode on compliance tech and building painkillers. This special episode is co-led by Eynat Guez, CEO of Papaya Global, and Neta Meidav, CEO of Vault Platform.

Eynat is a leading expert in global payroll and global workforce management. She co-founded Papaya Global in 2016 after seeing the technology gap in global payroll. Last September, Papaya Global announced that its valuation has surged to $3.7B following its $250M Series D.

Neta is the co-founder and CEO of Vault Platform, a venture-backed startup with a mission to help companies worldwide become the best and most ethical versions of themselves. In 2021, Neta led Vault through an $8.2M Series A funding round, attracting high profile investors such as Gradient Ventures.

During their Insights session, Eynat and Neta focus on topics including:

- ComplianceTech GTM: what works and what doesn't work

- Selling into legal and compliance departments

- The cultural enablement ComplianceTech can provide

- Fundraising as a woman

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Angular Insights episode on 20 years of growth learnings, led by Darius Contractor.

Darius is a growth-focused product and engineering leader. He’s grown companies and teams at Tickle, Bebo, FWD.us, Dropbox, Facebook, Airtable and now Vendr. Along the way he’s learned how to go viral, scaling infra, agile management, rapid iteration, product strategy and all aspects of growing a website.

During this Insights session, Darius highlights some key growth learnings including:

- What makes users tick

- Am I ready for a growth team?

- How does B2B growth differ from B2C

- Succeeding at growth in year 1

- Roles and careers in growth

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Angular Insights episode on building your marketing engine, led by Leigh Moore, VP of Marketing at Snyk.

In this episode, Leigh highlights some key learnings about how to build a marketing foundation and some of the important areas to focus on early including:

- Messaging to your primary audience

- Why a product led approach is worth investing in

- How to think about your first marketing hires

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Angular Insights episode on product-led partnerships, led by Andrew Edelman.

Andrew is the Head of Strategic & Platform Partnerships at Zapier where he is responsible for building and expanding partnerships with 4,000+ apps. With prior experience at Box, Google, and Narrative Science, he is focused on helping scale and grow innovative SaaS companies through product-led partnerships.

In this episode, Andrew focuses on topics including:

- How to think about your overall platform strategy

- When to build and how to prioritize native integrations

- How to build effective partner ecosystems

- Where do co-marketing and co-selling opportunities fit in

- How to connect partnerships to a product-led growth motion

Check out and register for upcoming Angular Insights at angularventures.com/events

Angular Insights episode on open source and category creation led by Emil Eifrem, Co-Founder & CEO of Neo4j.

Emil sketched the idea for what today is known as the graph database on a flight to Mumbai in 2000. As the CEO of Neo4j, and a co-author of the O'Reilly book Graph Databases, he's devoted his professional life to building, innovating, and evangelizing graph databases.

In this episode, Emil focuses on topics including building a new category, open source GTM, monetization, competition and co-operation with the tech giants, and more.

Check out and register for upcoming Angular Insights at angularventures.com/events