Nuno Gonçalves Pedro, founder and managing partner at Chamaeleon, talks about founding his  new VC firm and how they’re using technology to manage investment processes. Nuno reiterates the importance of entrepreneurs spending more time to know investors before meeting them. He also shares useful dialogue tips for founders to continually improve how they communicate with investors.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

[5:31] How due diligence in a technology-augmented VC firm looks like

[15:58] Know more about whoever you are meeting with on the investor’s side.

[19:48] Stop talking only about your product; have a fun human-to-human dialogue with investors.

Non-profit organization that Nuno is passionate about: West to West, Partnership for Children & Youth

About Guest Speaker

Nuno Gonçalves Pedro is the founder and managing partner at Chamaeleon. He focuses on consumer software, consumer hardware and horizontal SaaS. Formerly, he was the founder and managing partner at Strive Capital, the first ever early-stage VC quant firm and fund in the US, and senior expert and member of Asia-Pacific TMT leadership team at McKinsey & Co. He co-hosts Tech DECIPHERED, a podcast that deciphers the meaning of entrepreneur and investor views on big tech, VC and start-up news.

About Chamaeleon

Chamaeleon is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests globally in product-led early-stage startups offering consumer software/hardware, SaaS, PaaS, Blockchain, and deep & frontier tech. Chamaeleon partners have invested in companies like Gusto, Rubrik, App Annie, Enish, Virta Health, DraftKings, RobinHood, Advertio, Bepro, jscrambler, AI Spera, keepsafe, mindprober, and others. 

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