20Angel

20Angel: Anthony Danon: Announcing Europe's Latest Solo GP Fund, Rerail, Why Fintech is Misunderstood & The Art of Winning The Deal

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 to Europe, but globally. 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? What they think makes a great angel investor? Show links: https://www.rerail.vc/ [https://www.rerail.vc/] https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-danon-3409099b/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-danon-3409099b/]

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

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 them? What they think makes a great angel investor? Show links: https://www.conceptventures.vc/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/reecec/

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

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 work with their Founders? How Founders should approach them? What they think makes a great angel investor? Show links: https://tiny.vc/ [https://tiny.vc/] https://www.linkedin.com/in/moehring/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/moehring/]

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

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.

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?

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.