20Angel: Anthony Danon: Announcing Europe's Latest Solo GP Fund, Rerail, Why Fintech is Misunderstood & The Art of Winning The Deal
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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 19 features Anthony Danon, Founder of Rerail, the latest Solo GP Fund to enter the European ecosytem. Anthony has spent 10 years in fintech as an operator, VC and angel, having done 35+ investments, with a portfolio including, Primer, TrueLayer, Wayflyer and many more. And on Monday 14th October, he announced Rerail I, an angel fund backed and supported by founders and operators. He invests $200k-$500k checks at pre-seed/seed into founders looking to utilize fintech as a strategic advantage, with a skew...
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20Angel: Reece Chowdhry: Founder, Concept Ventures on why the Best Investments are the Weirdest, Using Body Language Experts for DD and why Most VC's Can't Handle Pre-Seed
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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 18 features Reece Chowdhry, Founder of Concept Ventures, now the UK’s largest dedicated pre-seed fund. Together, Reece and Concept Ventures have invested in over 100 startups, including some of the UK’s fastest-growing companies, such as unicorn Elevenlabs, Treefera, and VSim. The format for 20Angel is consistent across show, with questions including: What are some of the non-obvious things they look for when investing in a company? How they work with their Founders? How Founders should approach...
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20Angel: Philipp Moehring: Co-Founder of Tiny VC on Giving Founders Permission to be Extreme, Becoming Europe's Most Active Investor & How Large Pre-Seed Rounds Can Lead to Disaster
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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 17 features Philipp Moehring, Co-Founder of Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company (Tiny), One of Europe's most active pre-Seed investor with 350+ investments. His portfolio includes companies such as Sorare, Synthesia, 11x.ai, Amie, Wayve and many more . Previous to starting Tiny in 2017, Philipp was an investor at Seedcamp and AngelList. The format for 20Angel is consistent across show, with questions including: What are some of the non-obvious things they look for when investing in a company? How they...
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20Europe: UK: Julien Bek (Sequoia Capital), Georgia Stevenson (Index Ventures) & Finn Murphy (Nebular VC) on the UK Punching Above its Weight, Why a $100bn Business Can't be Built in Europe, and Lighting Money on Fire in SF
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20Europe is a new series profiling European ecosystems. Each episode is a roundtable format featuring investors based in countries including Germany, France, UK, Sweden and more. Half of the show will focus on how these local ecosystems operate, with the other half focused the tech and venture landscape. For Episode 3, we profile the UK. I was joined by Julien Bek, Partner @ Sequoia Capital, Georgia Stevenson, Partner @ Index Ventures & Finn Murphy, GP @ Nebular.
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20Europe: France: Roxanne Varza (Station F), Jonathan Userovici (Headline) & Reza Malekzadeh (Partech) on the French AI Revolution, Why French Founders Win on Product and Suck at Sales, The Fight for Top Talent and Where Did All The Unicorns Go?
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20Europe is a new series profiling European ecosystems. Each episode is a roundtable format featuring investors based in countries including Germany, France, UK, Sweden and more. Half of the show will focus on how these local ecosystems operate, with the other half focused the tech and venture landscape. For Episode 2, we profile France. I was joined by Roxanne Varza, Director of Station F, Jonathan Userovici, Partner at Headline & Reza Malekzadeh, Partner at Partech.
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20Europe: Germany: Filip Dames, Co-Founder of Cherry Ventures & Dom Wilhelm, Partner at Headline on why Germany is the top tech ecosystem in Europe, why multi-stage funds are dangerous for seed companies and the unicorns to look out for in 2024
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20Europe is a new series profiling European ecosystems. Each episode is a roundtable format featuring investors based in countries including Germany, France, UK, Sweden and more. Half of the show will focus on how these local ecosystems operate, with the other half focused more generally on the tech and venture landscape. For Episode 1, we profile Germany. I was joined by Filip Dames, Co-Founder of Cherry Ventures and Dom Wilhelm, Headline Ventures most recently announced Partner. The format for 20Europe is consistent across show, with questions including: What makes your local ecosystem...
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20Angel: Joakim Achren: Co-Founder of Next Games (Acq. Netflix) on How To Build an Angel Syndicate, What Data to Study When Investing in Gaming & The Stress & Loneliness When Building a Startup
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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 16 features Joakim Achren, angel investor & co-founder of Next Games, acquired by Netflix in 2022. Joakim also built Elite Game Developers, an online resource that helps entrepreneurs in starting their first games company. The newsletter and podcast have a combined number of over 10,000 subscribers. He is also an angel investor with a portfolio including Audiomob, Funcraft, Resolution Games, Lightheart Entertainment, Savage Game Studios, and over thirty other games companies. More recently, Joakim...
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20Angel: Paul Forster: Co-Founder of Indeed.com on Building a $7bn Revenue Business, Why Founders Are The Best Angels, Why he Said no to a Deal Led by Sequoia & Why he Passed on a $2.5bn Company at Seed
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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 15 features Paul Forster, angel investor & co-founder and former CEO of Indeed, the #1 job search and recruitment service worldwide, now with 12k employees and $7bn in revenue. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and Master’s degrees from Cambridge & Oxford Universities. He is also one of the UKs most prolific angel investors, with 80+ portfolio companies including Gocardless, Monzo, Lightdash, Habito and many more. The format for 20Angel is consistent across show, with questions including:...
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20Angel: Finn Murphy: Announcing Europe's Latest Solo GP, Why Backing Google Is The Only Thing That Matters, Why European Companies Need To Raise In The US & How The Deal Process Is Like Texas Hold'em
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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 14 features Finn Murphy, angel investor & previously a Partner at Frontline Ventures, where he made 24 fund investments and 8 angel investments in his 4 and half year tenure. In that time, he has seen 3 companies through to exit with Workvivo selling to Zoom, Overwatch to Benchling and Modulz to WorkOS. He’s also backed companies including Localyze, Conduktor, Unleash, Thursday and Qualio. Today’s episode is a special one as Finn announces what he’s been working on over the past year,...
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20Angel: Marc McCabe: Ex Airbnb Exec & Angel Investor on Why Operator Experience is Essential For an Angel, Passing on Coinbase at Seed, Punchy Y Combinator Valuations, & The Best Way to DD Investments
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20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS. Episode 13 features Marc McCabe, angel investor & solo GP of Nomad Capital, a seed stage fund focused on B2B software and marketplaces. Prior to starting Nomad, Marc worked at Google, SV Angel and was an early employee at Airbnb where he led numerous projects including Airbnb for Business and Samara. Marc has also been an active angel as a Sequoia scout and micro-fund manager, investing in the seed rounds of Intercom, Linear, Deel, OpenSea, Cutr and many more. The format for 20Angel is consistent across...
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Episode 4 features Joe Cross, Angel Investor and ex Head of Marketing & Comms at Wise (Transferwise). Joe is also part of the Atomico Angel Programme and his angel portfolio includes Bonnet, Lightyear, Gaia, Alloy, Julienne Bruno and many more.
The format for 20Angel is consistent across show, with questions including:
What are some of the non-obvious things they look for when investing in a company?
How they work with their Founders?
How Founders should approach them?
What they think makes a great angel investor?
Learnings from their Anti-Portfolio?
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