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During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Christian Czernich, Founder and CEO at Round2 Capital Partners, a firm that is experimenting with an alternative financing model.
Prometeo
As for entrepreneur pitches, Jonathan Mentz from Cape Town, South Africa, pitched Prometeo, a risk analysis and monitoring solution.
Hustlebeez
Next Bing Huang from Sunnyvale, California, pitched Hustlebeez, a personal finance app for debt management.
Sramana Mitra: You had both transaction revenue and marketplace revenue.
Garrett Goldberg: The company exited right as we were turning on marketplace transactions. The next one had that as well. It’s a marketplace in the chemicals industry called Knowde. Instead of having a software product, it had a storefront tool for chemical producers to sell their wares.
>>>Sramana Mitra: When you made the decision to invest in this young founder, how did they find you or how did you find them?
Garrett Goldberg: That’s part of what we do here, we try to make sure we’re approachable by founders. This particular one came through another founder that we had a relationship with. We see a lot of good deal flows from later-stage VCs.
>>>Sramana Mitra: What geography do you cover?
Garrett Goldberg: North America. We’re in San Francisco but we’re generally agnostic. We’re certainly agnostic but it’s important for us to be here. This is the center of gravity for now just in terms of processing opportunities.
>>>Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Garrett Goldberg was recorded in April 2020.
Garrett Goldberg, Partner at Bee Partners, discusses his firm’s enterprise focused investment thesis, including some unique insights on SaaS-powered vertical marketplaces.
>>>Tony Olivito, Partner at Comeback Capital, discusses his firm’s Midwest focused investment thesis.
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