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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Accel comes up
20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings Excel and Insight Venture Partners, having raised a hundred and fifty million Series B in 2014.
- ▶ 10:51 Ryan Smith I remember Excel partners who Excel and Sequoia, they led our series a Excel had reached out for three years. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:14 Harry Stebbings When you were, as you said, cash flow positive and the business was thriving, what was that kind of catalyst for you guys realizing that now was the time for venture funding and you wanted to take Excel and Sequoia's money?
20VC: Investing In Sectors That Were Cool 2 Years Ago, What Accel's Facebook Fund Taught a Generation of LPs & Why LPs Need A New Discovery Process with Paul Martino, Founding Partner @ Bullpen Capital
- ▶ 26:41 Paul Martino But you know, I don't want to be the one person who said no to the Facebook fund for Excel. 6 times in the scene
20VC: Rick Marini on Lessons Leant From Naval Ravikant, Why You Need To Make 30 Investments Before You Know What You Are Doing & Why You Have To Earn The Right To Good Dealflow
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings And prior to his prolific angel investing career, Rick was the founder and CEO of BranchOut, who raised forty-nine million dollars in funding from some of the world's best investors, including the likes of Excel, Redpoint, Mayfield, and…
- ▶ 4:20 Rick Marini The, the first dot com crash, uh, started my second company branch out back in 2010 and, uh, branch out raised forty nine million dollars from Excel and Mayfield and Redpoint and Newark West and Floodgate and some great angels. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 20:51 Alex Bangash Excel, benchmark, and increase.
20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- ▶ 3:35 Michael Kim At the same time, at Rustic Canyon and being in venture, I saw that the absolute best firms like the Sequoia XLs,
- ▶ 12:23 Michael Kim The larger VCs like the Sequoia, Excel benchmarks, Greylocks of the world, um, are very focused on ownership into the best companies, and that, that dynamic itself precludes, uh, outside parties
20VC: Why VC Is The Perfect Preparation For Founding A Startup & Changing The World Of Online Fashion with Chris Morton, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings And a universal checkout cart that has pulled in more than sixty million dollars in funding from the likes of Balderton, Excel, and DFJ, just to name a few.
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings Therefore, I'm delighted to welcome Brian O'Malley, partner at the world-famous Excel Partners. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:56 Brian O'Malley We've got a really great collection of partners here at Excel.
20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on The Commonalities Of Truly Great Founders and Learnings From Investing In Box, Twilio and GainSight
- ▶ 27:49 Harry Stebbings As always, a huge thank you for your continued support, and I look so forward to bringing you Wednesday's show with Brian O'Malley, partner at Excel Partners in San Francisco.
20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- ▶ 30:46 unnamed speaker Excel. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Fundraising Is Also Business Development with Nicolas Dessaigne, Co-Founder & CEO @ Algolia
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Having started life as an offline search engine for mobile, they transitioned to helping companies deliver an intuitive search as you type experience on the web and mobile, and they were part of YC's winter, 2014 batch, and recently raised…
- ▶ 12:09 Harry Stebbings We've got Excel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:44 Nicolas Dessaigne And so that was like the perfect timing for us to raise our sales day, uh, that we did with Excel.
20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!
- ▶ 20:28 Aydin Senkut So when I was calling the CEO to join their run along with Excel and Atomico, we were like a tiny little fund, but they let us in.
20VC: Sprig's Gagan Biyani on The 3 Principles Of Fundraising and Building The World's Largest Restaurant
- ▶ 15:57 Harry Stebbings And we've spoken about the food now, and, and obviously we're primarily a VC-based show, and so we've got Battery, Excel, Ludlow, Greylock, all past guests of the show, and obviously Great Minds Think Alike, because they're also investors…
20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
- ▶ 21:30 Christian Hernandez And you look at Greg Marsh at One Fine Stay, um, you look at, um, Avid, who was at Excel, and then did Boutique, now at Google Ventures. 2 times in the scene
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
- ▶ 0:05 Harry Stebbings And following our episode with the awesome Fred Destin, we are back in the land of Excel, and joining me today in the hot seat is James Cameron, early stage investor at Excel, where he focuses on enterprise software, security, fintech, and… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings James, absolutely fantastic to have you on the show for the second installment of Axel Feature Week. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:42 James Cameron been the big, one of the biggest revelations for me since, uh, joining Xcel is, you know, we always used to talk about these
20VC: Fred Destin @ Accel on Why Startups Fail & Founders Get Fired?
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings It is, of course, Excel Partners. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54 Harry Stebbings It's an absolute pleasure to have you on the show today, and it's a very special episode as we're sitting here in Axel's office in London. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:45 Fred Destin Um, and you know, Wonga is an Excel portfolio company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:37 Harry Stebbings And I'd like to give a huge hand to Fred for giving up his time today to be on the show, and for inviting me into the Axel office. 2 times in the scene