Video: Investing in categories no one is paying attention to

Mitos Suson · January 2, 2017 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/488c

At Post Seed 2016, Co-founders and partners shared their ideas about missed investment categories

At our Post Seed 2016 event last Dec.1, Eric Newcomer, Startup Reporter at Bloomberg led a panel session of Co-founders and Partners including Michael Ma, General Partner at Liquid 2 Ventures; Dave Peterson, Co-Founder & Partner at Play Bigger Advisors; Christine Herron, Director at Intel Capital; Chris Paik, Partner at Thrive Capital; and Aeref Hilaly, Partner at Sequoia Capital. Post Seed is hosted by Vator, Bullpen Capital and Haystack.

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Bullpen Capital is a second round investor that invests in companies previously seeded by the Super Angel funds. Bullpen's founders include Paul Martino, founder and former CEO of Aggregate Knowledge, Duncan Davidson, founder of Covad and former venture partner at VantagePoint, and Richard Melmon, co-founder of Electronic Arts.

Haystack is a seed-stage fund.

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Editor's Note: SplashX LA is around the corner on January 19 at TechStyle Fashion HQ in Los Angeles. Speakers include Adam Goldenberg (Founder & CEO, TechStyle Fashion), Richard Jun (Managing Partner, Bam Ventures), Brian Garett (Co-founder and Managing Director, CrossCut Ventures), Laurent Grill (Luma Launch), Mitch Thrower (Founder & CEO, Events.com) and many more. Join us! REGISTER HERE.

Mitos Suson

I produce Vator Events and enjoy the challenge. I am learning and growing a lot, being involved with Vator and loving every moment of it!

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