1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Elly Truesdell of Almanac Insights (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Elly Truesdell was recorded in March 2020.

Elly Truesdell is Partner at Almanac Insights, a fund focused on food-related investments. We have a fascinating conversation.

Roundtable Recap: April 23 – Discussion on Vertical Marketplaces

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Garrett Goldberg, Partner at Bee Partners. Garrett discussed his firm’s enterprise focused investment thesis, including some unique insights on SaaS-powered vertical marketplaces.

The Steel Store

As for entrepreneur pitches, Rajat Jain from Toronto, Canada, pitched The Steel Store, a steel marketplace.

Kids Dance Revolution

Next, we had Diane Tinsley from New York, NY, pitch Kids Dance Revolution, an event-focused business that faces tough times in the pandemic era.

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481st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Joshua Posamentier, Congruent Ventures

Joshua Posamentier is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Congruent Ventures, a firm focused on sustainability oriented technology ventures.

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481st Roundtable Recording on April 16, 2020: With Joshua Posamentier, Congruent Ventures

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Roundtable Recap: April 16 – Global Entrepreneurship Continues Amidst Pandemic

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Joshua Posamentier, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Congruent Ventures, a firm focused on sustainability oriented technology ventures.

Mark N Park
As for entrepreneur pitches, Sanket Thodge from Pune, India, pitched the Mark N Park app, a parking
optimization solution.

VacaShopping.com
Next, we had Matias Larroulet from Buenos Aires, Argentina, pitching VacaShopping.com, a B-to-B marketplace for the oil and gas sector in Vaca Muerta, a province of Argentina.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Darshana Zaveri of Catalyst Health Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Given that you are in a sector that is very relevant to what we are going through right now, what do you see is going to happen? There is a furious effort to come up with all kinds of testing devices with coronavirus and testing for antibodies of who has already gotten it. All these are medical device problems.

There is, of course, the vaccine side, but there is a big medical device issue that is developing. How do you process what’s happening?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Darshana Zaveri of Catalyst Health Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is the go-to market strategy for this company? What is your investment thesis around go-to market strategies? You mentioned early on that these companies don’t necessarily go to market on their own.

Darshana Zaveri: This company did exit. It was bought out in 2018 by Boston Scientific. We did the seed round and led the Series A. We had a new investor come in to lead the Series B.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Darshana Zaveri of Catalyst Health Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What about geography? You’re based in the Boston area. Where do you like to invest?

Darshana Zaveri: We’re pretty broad across the US. We’re a very small team ourselves. We’re two Managing Partners and a few folks in the back office. We tend to be New England focused just because of our location and where we tend to operate.