Video: What Unicorns looked like at Series A/ Post-Seed

Mitos Suson · December 15, 2015 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/420b

At Post Seed 2015, VCs from Javelin, Lowercase, Shasta, IVP and Intel share insight

At Post Seed 2015, hosted by Bullpen Capital, Vator and Venture 51, Alex Konrad, Staff Writer at Forbes moderated the panel "What Unicorns looked like at Series A/ Post-Seed". He was joined by Tod Francis, Managing Director of Shasta Ventures; Jed Katz, Managing Director of Javelin Venture Partners; Christine Herron, Director at Intel; Tom Loverro, Vice President of IVP; Matt Mazeo, Managing Director of Lowercase Capital.

A key takeaway from this panel: A consistent trait of Unicorns at the early stages is having a founder who is an articulate, inspiring, convincing and confident evangelist.

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