1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Darshana Zaveri of Catalyst Health Ventures (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 Darshana Zaveri was recorded in April 2020.

Darshana Zaveri, Managing Partner at Catalyst Health Ventures, discusses the firm’s medical device-focused investment thesis, including the nuances of epidemiologic diagnostics that are currently immensely relevant. The Catalyst investment team also includes Managing Partner Josh Phillips and Principal Neil Swami.

480th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ritesh Agarwal, CerraCap Ventures

Ritesh Agarwal is Co-founder and Managing Director at CerraCap Ventures, a deep tech focused early stage firm.

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480th Roundtable Recording on April 9, 2020: With Ritesh Agarwal, CerraCap Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

Roundtable Recap: April 9 – Business as Usual

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ritesh Agarwal, Co-founder and Managing Director CerraCap Ventures, a deep tech focused early stage firm.

Ecoin
As for entrepreneur pitches, we had Abhyuday Das and Krishna Yogi from Bangalore, India, pitching Ecoin, a
cryptocurrency venture.

DepartDiscount
Next, Zoe Frantzeskakis from East Lansing, Michigan, pitched DepartDiscount, an app to help short-term rental hosts differentiate.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shruti Gandhi of Array Ventures (Part 3)

Shruti Gandhi: The reason we don’t talk about our fund size is because of LP issues. We are a smaller fund. Those smaller exits are great for us in terms of returning the capital.

Oftentimes when you start a company and you’re thinking about a $15 million exit, that could be your ceiling in some ways. You figure out the market is too crowded and then you say, “If I raise another round, will I price myself out of an acquisition conversation?”

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shruti Gandhi of Array Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You don’t need them to finish the product?

Shruti Gandhi: No. One of our companies barely had a deck.

Sramana Mitra: You want customer validation from their network. Then you want to take that concept and shop it around in your relevant network. If all that checks out, you’re okay with writing a check for the product to be built.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shruti Gandhi of Array Ventures (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 Shruti Gandhi was recorded in March 2020.

Shruti Gandhi is General Partner and Founding Engineer, Array Ventures, a fund focused on deep tech, enterprise-facing ventures.

479th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Darshana Zaveri, Catalyst Health Ventures

Darshana Zaveri, Managing Partner at Catalyst Health Ventures, discusses the firm’s medical device focused investment thesis, including the nuances of epidemiologic diagnostic that are currently immensely relevant. The Catalyst investment team also includes Managing Partner Josh Phillips and Principal Neil Swami.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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