Podcasts about fresco capital

Allison has spent over a decade pioneering the of future of work as an employee, investor, and author. Her book, Breaking into Venture, offers a human perspective on succeeding in venture capital. As a General Partner at Semper Virens, she invests in technology transforming workforce, healthcare, and financial services. Allison contributes to Forbes, lectures at Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley Haas, and has a rich background including roles at Goldman Sachs, General Assembly, Fresco Capital, and Trinity Ventures. She holds a BA in Economics with honors and a minor in Film Studies from Harvard.In this episode, you will learn howAllison grew up in the Midwest, witnessing her parents' jobs being disrupted by technology, which influenced her dedication to understanding the future of work.After the financial crisis and seeing algorithmic job replacement at Goldman Sachs, she decided to focus her career on technology and innovation.Working at General Assembly introduced her to venture capital, where she saw the influence VCs have on startups, leading her to co-found Fresco Capital and later join Semper Virens.She emphasizes the importance of creating a unique value add in venture capital, highlighting the significance of building and activating a powerful network.Allison believes AI will augment jobs by taking over specific tasks rather than replacing entire jobs, advocating for a responsible AI implementation process to mitigate risks.Keys to picking a career that won't be automated by a bot.ResourcesConnect with AllisonAI fun fact articleAn episode you might like about limiting AI's adverse effects

Angela Lee is an award-winning professor and former Chief Innovation Officer at Columbia Business School, where she teaches venture capital and leadership courses. Angela started her career in product management and then moved to McKinsey. She has started 4 startups and is also the founder of 37 Angels, an investing network that has evaluated over 20000 startups, invested in 100, and activated new investors through a startup investment bootcamp. She also serves as a venture partner at Fresco Capital, has been recognized by Inc. Crains and Entrepreneur, and has spoken at NASA and the White House. We talk about vetting startups, the value of corporate-startup collaboration, and why saying no is the secret to driving results.

Highlights: - How to prepare your company for an exit- When is the right time to exit your business- If you're being acquired how not to sell your business too low- VC role may not be a good fit to you - reasons whyAbout StephenStephen is a managing partner at Fresco Capital. He was Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik, a leading vendor of developer and team productivity tools which got acquired in 2014. And he's also an avid mountain climber, and leads an annual charity fundraising trek in the Mt. Everest region.

Hear from Angela Lee, Founder of 37 Angels, about the story behind 37 Angels, its initiatives, guiding principles in due diligence, her approach to value creation in getting companies from Seed to Series A, and more. 37 Angels, based out of New York, is one of the leading communities of women investors committed to funding early stage startups. Angela Lee is an award-winning professor and former Chief Innovation Officer at Columbia Business School where she teaches venture capital and leadership courses. Angela started her career in product management and then moved to consulting at McKinsey & Company. She has started 4 startups and is also the founder of 37 Angels, an investing network that has evaluated over 15000 startups, invested in 70+, and activates new investors through a startup investment bootcamp. She also serves as a venture partner at Fresco Capital, an early-stage venture fund that focuses on the future of work, digital health, and sustainability. Angela has spoken at the White House and NASA and is an expert in teaching online and making learning scalable. She is a sought-after expert on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, MSNBC and Fox Business. She was recognized by Inc. as one of 17 Inspiring Women to Watch, by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of 6 Innovative Women to Watch, and by Crain's as a Notable Women in Tech. In 2020, she was awarded the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence at Columbia Business School.

Talking about how to evaluate an investment opportunity and what drives a VC to invest or pass on a deal, the dynamic of operator turned VC, how to start a VC fund, how to raise LP capital, raising LP capital from small angels and larger LPs, evolving a strategy for portfolio construction to neutralize early stage risk and optimize the impact of the best exits, what percentage of a fund should go into follow ons and pro ratas, policies around pro-rata investing, getting into the details of financings at seed, late stage seed, A and into late stage large rounds and the behavior of larger VCs working with smaller earlier stage VCs. Video at https://youtu.be/sosRs_L07rQ. andrew@7bc.vc

This month we’re talking standard-essential patents (SEPs) with Steven Forte of member company Fresco Capital and Trish Thomas of member company TEEM. Before we dive into member chats, we’re doing a high-level recap of what SEPs are and how important fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing commitments are to our members. And, of course, we’ll be hitting tech history, the top tech headlines in DC, and our random identifiers.

In this episode: Stephen Forte, Managing Partner at Fresco Capital, an early stage VC investor. He was also a board member of the Scrum Alliance, Chief Strategy Officer at Telerik and CTO at Zagat Survey and many other ventures. He started his career as a developer.Let us know who you want to hear sharing on this podcast. Thanks to Mizuho Hong Kong for being the venue sponsor for this episode and thanks to Kohpy Ventures for making this series possible.Contact me @jebbery 

Looi Qin En is the co-founder and former COO of Glints. Founded in 2013, Glints is now the number one tech-enabled recruitment platform in Asia for employers to build successful teams. Their mission is to help all people and organizations to realize their full human potential. They were the youngest founders to have raised venture capital in Southeast Asia. They are backed by VC firms such as Monk's Hill Ventures, 500 Startups, Wavemaker Partners, Golden Equator Capital, MindWorks Ventures, Fresco Capital and Singapore Press Holdings. They have been featured on Forbes, Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Yahoo News, The Straits Times, Business Times, Today, Tech in Asia, e27 and Channel News Asia. Qin En led people operations and grew the user community from zero to 250,000 across Singapore and Indonesia, managed enterprise accounts and led the internal human capital strategy. At the age of 15, he wrote his first research paper on predicting personality through social gaming and went on to publish 12 more human-computer interaction papers in international peer-reviewed conferences and journals. He fostered student entrepreneurship as a partner with Dorm Room Fund, associate lecturer at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Entrepreneur In Residence at Entrepreneur First and advisor to the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Singapore Management University. He has worked in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group, founded and sold the web design agency Half Grand and has been a brand strategist at Training Edge International. Qin En graduated with distinction in two years from Stanford University, majoring in Management Science and Engineering. He was honored with Forbes 30 under 30 and Entrepreneurs 27 under 27. His hobbies are high intensity cardio and watching action movies. You can follow him at his social media profile online in our show notes. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/looiqinen) Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/looi-qin-en

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Furuzonfar Zehni is an entrepreneur and investor from Tajikistan, a TEDx license holder, a mentor for the Laudato Si Challenge and the Founder Institute – and a person passionate about economic and cultural empowerment. He is currently working at Fresco Capital, a global venture capital firm, where he is involved in all aspects of investment and operations. In this episode, Furuzonfar takes us through his journey – geographically, from Tajikistan, through the Middle East into Europe and to Hong Kong – and professionally, from entrepreneurship to venture capital. On being ambitious, daring, strategic and curious – in this episode!

Furuzonfar Zehni is an entrepreneur and investor from Tajikistan, a TEDx license holder, a mentor for the Laudato Si Challenge and the Founder Institute – and a person passionate about economic and cultural empowerment. He is currently working at Fresco Capital, a global venture capital firm, where he is involved in all aspects of investment and operations. In this episode, Furuzonfar takes us through his journey – geographically, from Tajikistan, through the Middle East into Europe and to Hong Kong – and professionally, from entrepreneurship to venture capital. On being ambitious, daring, strategic and curious – in this episode!

Today, many companies provide developer access to their services via APIs.Moesif, a San Francisco startup, wants to help these companies gain insight into their customer's API usage patterns. Today, the company announced a $3.5 million seed round. The investment was led by Merus Capital with participation by Heavybit, Fresco Capital and Zach Coelius, who sold his startup, Cruise Automation, to General Motors for $1 billion in 2016.

In this episode, Hall T. Martin conducts an interview with Allison Baum of Fresco Capital. Allison Baum is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Fresco Capital.  Prior to Fresco, Allison was an early member of the team at General Assembly, a global network for education and career transformation specializing in today's most in-demand skills, where she developed and launched the company's first part-time and full-time programs for technology, business, and design in New York.  In 2012, she relocated to Hong Kong to launch their first business in Asia.  Previously, she was a member of the Equity Derivatives team and Cross Asset Sales teams at Goldman Sachs in New York City. Fresco Capital is a global early stage venture fund. Fresco invests in companies at the seed stage and helps them grow by planning strategy to expand globally.

Steve Forte is a 5-time entrepreneur who had successful exits in all his businesses. He is the co-founder and managing partner of Fresco Capital, which focuses on seed and early-stage investment to create maximum impact for companies, investors, and partners. Using his experiences in several business ventures, he is heading a new path as a VC. On this episode, he explains what a VC is and what to expect when pursuing this endeavor. He shares his expertise in pitching a startup business to invest and minimize risk. He also shares how Vatican Accelerator started and how it has been progressing over time. This is an interesting conversation about startup businesses and investments.   Links: Fresco.vc Twitter   Where we are: Johnny – Canary Islands Sam – Southeast Asia   Discussed: Audible 30 Day FREE Trial   Time Stamps: 4:51 – His background 9:51 – What does a VA do? 12:37 – Pitching a startup business to invest 17:38 – Founder’s expectation in terms of compensation 20:29 – Startup failure rate 23:27 – How to setup accelerator 26:24 – Software and social networking 31:09 – Difference between accelerator and incubator 37:11 – Vatican Acceleratorbackstoryy 46:50 – For-profit & mission-driven model 51:14 – Updates on Vatican Accelerator 55:10 – Future plans for the program   If you enjoyed this episode, do us a favor and share it! Also if you haven’t’ already, please take a minute to leave us a 5-star review on iTunes and claim your bonus here! Copyright 2017. All rights reserved. Read our disclaimer here.    

Tytus has been investing, living, and working in Asia since 1999. He first launched an institutional hedge fund in Hong […]

In this episode of the Seedcamp Podcast, we were joined by Managing Partner of Fresco Capital, Stephen Forte. In our conversation we covered his move from Wall Street to becoming the “tech guy” to building his career in startups. Stephen provides some great advice for CTO’s in small companies on the skills they need to build as the business scales. He discusses how to develop an understanding of the non-technical sides of your business, how to hire and manage your first technical employees and the people skills you need in order to manage and delegate.

In this edition of the Seedcamp Podcast Series focused on Asia, Carlos Espinal talks with Tytus Michalski, Managing Partner at Fresco Capital about the startup investment ecosystem in Asia. Tytus discussed his background, how he became involved in investing, offering his insights on what founders should consider when expanding to this geography, and the risks and challenges of not taking into account the cultural differences. Tytus has been investing, working and living in Asia since 1999. Previously, he was Chief Investment Officer of Equities at PMA Investment Advisors, an institutional hedge fund. He is an active supporter of startup ecosystem in Hong Kong and Asia with an emphasis on mentorship and education.