Roundtable Recap: November 7 – AI Investment Thesis with Daniel Cohen, Viola Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Viola Ventures, discussing his firm’s AI Investment thesis. If you have been following this series, you know that it has yielded a lot of insights. If you want to catch up with the series, check out my new Udemy course How VC Investors Think About AI Startups.

The Animation Co.

First, Varun Taneja from Mumbai, India, pitched The Animation Co., a super interesting animation company that fuses influencer marketing with original content production. Very cool!

Help Me Find My Baby LLC A Missing Dog Service

Then, Megan Groce from Roanoke, Alabama, pitched Help Me Find My Baby LLC A Missing Dog Service, a service for locating missing dogs. Did you know 10 million dogs are reported as missing in America every year?

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Bootstrapping to Exit, Then Raise Money and Exit Again: Wendy CEO Lance Neuhauser (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: So, if you’re comfortable disclosing, how much money did you raise during that ten-year period from 2010-2020, and what kind of exit did you get, numerically?

Lance Newhauser: We ended up raising about $35 million for 4C specifically from 2010 to 2020. There was some debt layered on top of that as well. The final price tag on 4C was $170 million.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Healthcare IT Company to $100 Million

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When we spoke in 2015, Edifecs Founder Sunny Singh had built a very interesting healthcare IT company, overcoming serious challenges. Inspiring story of a bootstrapped success.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Sunny Singh: Give or take, I’ve spent half my life in the US and half my life in India. I grew up in India and finished my undergraduate studies there. Then, I came to the US at the age of 23 to do a couple of Master’s programs. I did three jobs and then started Edifecs in 1996.

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Sramana Mitra: How did you address this complex sales cycle issue? Because that could really block velocity.