Our new guest Hambardzum Kaghketsyan is a Partner at SmartGateVC, Customer development professional, formerly Draper University EIR.
With Hambardzum we’ve talked about new opportunities for Eastern European startups in California, effective communication with investors for founders, angels & demons of venture capital investing, and lessons learned from Tim Draper.
SmartGateVC is a Silicon Valley pre-seed VC with offices also in LA and Yerevan (backed by Tim Draper and other high profile entrepreneurs and VCs) and focuses on deep tech companies in Eastern Europe. Their co-investors/follow on investors include True Ventures, Foundation Capital, YC, Sierra Ventures, Baidu, etc.
Hero House Glendale (California, USA) opportunity for eastern European startups: https://bit.ly/37j1IVn
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Our new guest Hambardzum Kaghketsyan is a Partner at SmartGateVC, Customer development professional, formerly Draper University EIR.
With Hambardzum we’ve talked about new opportunities for Eastern European startups in California, effective communication with investors for founders, angels & demons of venture capital investing, and lessons learned from Tim Draper.
SmartGateVC is a Silicon Valley pre-seed VC with offices also in LA and Yerevan (backed by Tim Draper and other high profile entrepreneurs and VCs) and focuses on deep tech companies in Eastern Europe. Their co-investors/follow on investors include True Ventures, Foundation Capital, YC, Sierra Ventures, Baidu, etc.
Hero House Glendale (California, USA) opportunity for eastern European startups: https://bit.ly/37j1IVn
How to Pitch up to 45 000 Business Angels at a time? LUIGI AMATI
VC CHATROOM
27 minutes 20 seconds
5 years ago
How to Pitch up to 45 000 Business Angels at a time? LUIGI AMATI
Watch the video and learn how to grow the angels club and why the "Learning by doing" approach also works for investors. We talked about angel investing shifting to digital, education for investors, the average ticket of a seed round. Luigi mentioned the growing governmental support for innovators in Italy and the EU in general - in particular, fiscal deduction on startups investments and recently established Fund-of-funds.
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Luigi Amati - one of the founders of Italian Angels for Growth, the largest angel group in Italy, and the President of Business Angels Europe. Chairman of META Ventures, an investment company with over €100 ml under management, of which over €60 ml has already been invested in more than 60 companies. With more than 25 years’ worth of expertise in research, innovation, and venture capital, Luigi Amati has a unique perspective on the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem.
VC CHATROOM
Our new guest Hambardzum Kaghketsyan is a Partner at SmartGateVC, Customer development professional, formerly Draper University EIR.
With Hambardzum we’ve talked about new opportunities for Eastern European startups in California, effective communication with investors for founders, angels & demons of venture capital investing, and lessons learned from Tim Draper.
SmartGateVC is a Silicon Valley pre-seed VC with offices also in LA and Yerevan (backed by Tim Draper and other high profile entrepreneurs and VCs) and focuses on deep tech companies in Eastern Europe. Their co-investors/follow on investors include True Ventures, Foundation Capital, YC, Sierra Ventures, Baidu, etc.
Hero House Glendale (California, USA) opportunity for eastern European startups: https://bit.ly/37j1IVn
