Podcasts about dfj esprit

Today we are happy to welcome David Peterson and Gil Dibner, from Angular Ventures.Gil is the General Partner and Founder of Angular. He has been an active venture investor focused on enterprise technology companies born in Europe and Israel since 2005. As a venture investor and angel, he has backed over 30 companies. Prior to founding Angular, Gil was a Partner at DFJ Esprit and a Principal at Index Ventures in London, where he helped manage their pan-European seed portfolio.David is a partner who, prior to joining Angular, was employee #16 at Airtable, where he led growth and partnerships, developing full-stack GTM strategies and scaling the company to over 500 employees, grew from zero to 200,000 customers, and reached a $5.77B valuation.In this episode you'll learn:– The founding story of Angular Ventures and how Gil & David think about complementarity in their partnership – How Gil & David think about navigating the current market climate & why they leaned into their biggest bet ever this July– Why Gil advises that alignment is kept front and center for emerging managers raising their fund

cc: growth journeys from emerging ecosystems to global markets. Gil Dibner is the General Partner of Angular Ventures, an early-stage enterprise fund focused on founders across Europe and Israel. Prior to Angular, Gil led investments across the region during his time at DFJ Esprit, Index Ventures, Gemini Israel Ventures, and Genesis Partners. He has a special eye to spot enterprise opportunities that can scale globally. What’s in this episode? 1) Evolution of the Israeli ecosystem from 1970s 2) VC: is it an access game or a selection game? 3) Europe’s progress and opportunity in enterprise software 4) Importance of the US market for enterprise startups and how to Americanize 5) Israel’s playbook and knowledge base as a startup nation You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.

Discussing meditation for startups with Nic Brisbourne, Managing Partner, Forward Partners in London on podcast “Fireside with a VC”. How meditation will be understood to be as necessary as physical exercise. Nic is a former Partner at DFJ Esprit and former Associate at Reuters Venture Capital. Find and subscribe to audio on Spotify, iTunes, Google & other podcast platforms at anchor.fm/andrew-romans. Full video at youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC. #meditation #startups #London #venturecapital #VC

Nic Brisbourne, Managing Partner, Forward Partners in London on podcast “Fireside with a VC” discusses “Applied VC” and how his venture firm employs a Venture Studio to help portfolio companies with a range of technical and marketing services. We explore the need to add value to startups beyond just cash. Nic is a former Partner at DFJ Esprit and former Associate at Reuters Venture Capital. Full video version of this podcast can be found at https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC. #London #appliedvc #venturecapital #VC

Alexander „Alex“ Frolov is a truly pan-European entrepreneur and venture capital investor. Originally from Russia, he has spent the last five years building up the international VC firm Target Global, which is a comprehensive family of funds and offers investments and support to companies of all stages (from seed to growth). With offices in Berlin, Tel Aviv and Moscow, the company covers the European startup market in great depth - but also bridges the local and US startup scene by having an additional office in San Francisco. Target Global focuses primarily on fast-growing digital-enabled B2C and B2B companies in marketplaces, FinTech, software and mobile segments. The VC firm aims to identify and support great teams that execute on phenomenal opportunities to create true success stories. Since 2012, Target Global has invested into more than 40 startups and currently has more than $500 million in assets under management. Well-known companies like Delivery Hero, Blue Apron, Book A TIGER and Auto1 belong to Target Global’s portfolio. As a General Partner, Alex works on all aspects of the VC business and tries to create sustainable returns on investment and support startup success cases alike. Prior to joining Target Global, he worked at the VC firm DFJ Esprit in London and led several private and corporate tech startups himself. Alex started his career as an analyst at Troika Dialog Asset Management, where he covered the telecom and IT sectors. In this episode, we are talking to Alex about what makes Target Global unique as a VC, the questions that he asks startups when they seek funding, how entrepreneurs can impress him during an investment pitch, what current industry trends he sees in the European startup scene and what people might not know about the tech scene in Russia. Here is the full list of topics that we cover with international venture capital investor Alexander Frolov: [01:25 – 02:19] Introduction of Alex and his professional background [02:20 – 04:14] On the founding story behind Target Global [04:15 – 05:04] The one thing that people don’t know about Alex [05:05 – 06:49] What Alex fundamentally disagrees on with other people [06:50 – 08:52] On Target Global’s ‚unfair advantage‘ as a VC [08:53 - 10:08] On the definition of the term „hustler“ [10:09 - 12:07] How Target Global assesses if a founder has what it takes to be successful [12:08 - 12:52] On Delivery Hero being Target’s most successful exit to date [12:53 - 15:14] The ‚secret sauce‘ for Delivery Hero’s success [15:15 - 18:01] How the founders of their portfolio companies convinced the Target team to invest [18:02 - 22:38] On the investment into Hello Fresh’s US rival Blue Apron [22:39 - 23:38] Alex’ view on Amazon being a threat to e-commerce startups [23:39 - 27:33] Target’s screening process for identifying opportunities and making investments [27:34 - 29:14] How long it takes on average from an introduction to transferring the money for an investment [29:15 - 30:46] On the KPIs that Target Global uses to measure its own performance [30:47 - 31:12] One question that founders teams should be prepared for to answer during a pitch [31:13 - 34:23] Target’s operational involvement in their portfolio companies [34:24 - 36:54] How entrepreneurs can ‚wow‘ Alex during an investment pitch [36:55 - 38:39] Alex’ worst investment decision as a VC [38:40 - 39:44] The best advice that was given to Alex as a VC [39:45 - 41:54] The promising industries that Alex himself would found a startup in [41:55 - 44:30] What people don’t know about the Russian startup scene

Tom Bradley is Head of the Ventures Team at Oxford Capital. Tom, previously a partner at both DFJ Esprit and DN Capital, has been involved with successful scale-ups like Performance Horizon, Shazam and Neteconomy. The Oxford Capital Ventures portfolio includes promising startups and scale-ups like import.io, Ultrasoc and Redsift. In this week's episode you'll hear about:  The mindset that the founders of European enterprise software startups must have if they are to succeed globally Tom's key criteria for investing in enterprise software ventures Advice for pre-product and pre-revenue start-ups on how to engage with investors and VCs How European entrepreneurs can leverage US VCs to successfully break into The States Head over to https://www.oxcp.com/investments/venture-capital/ for more details on Oxford Capital's venture portfolio and check out www.alpinasearch.com for advice on globally scaling your software venture.

The Tech.eu podcast is a weekly show where Neil S W Murray and Roxanne Varza discuss the most interesting stories from the European technology scene. On this episode they discuss: Lots of movement at Twitter in Europe - update on what’s going on there DFJ’s European arm DFJ Esprit went public - yes, a venture firm Spain’s JobAndTalent secured a 42 million Series B round Our Editor Robin catches up with Bulgarian Imperia Online. We wrap up with a discussion about the call for a Single Startup Market in the EU For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Scott Sage, Expert in Residence at Seedcamp, sits down with Carlos Espinal in the first of a three part series. In this episode, Scott and Carlos discuss Internationalisation. Scott begins by explaining his move from wanting to study music into majoring in finance and building a career in investment. He talks about his keen interest in SaaS, marketplace and enterprise companies and what makes a business stand out to him as an Investor before providing some key lessons learnt from his first few investments made at Draper Esprit (previously DFJ Esprit). He then discusses Internationalisation and why this is important for young companies, before looking at some best in class examples, when European startups should look at opening international offices, and advice based on the experiences he went through working with Conversocial, Datahug and Trustpilot.

Simon Cook is the CEO of DFJ Esprit, the European arm of Draper Fisher Jurvetson of Silicon Valley, the largest venture capital network in the world with 140 investment professionals and 600 portfolio companies including SpaceX, Tesla, and Skype.