XSeed Capital

“We actually like Companies that have a high level of technical risk, because we believe strong engineering talent can overcome technical risks, and if it's actually a difficult technical problem to solve, it means there is a higher barrier to entry for this ma…”

“Given our stage of investment at the seed stage, oftentimes we invest in companies before they have a product or before they have any meaningful revenue.”

“It's just when it comes to XE's investment focus, we have a preference for companies that are built on unique technologies. So that biases us towards companies that are founded by technical co-founders.”

“If things are not going well as well as you expected, go back to your key assumptions underlying your business model, right? Some of the key, one or more of those key assumptions have not been proven out, and that's why things are not going well. So go back to…”

“The best pivots I've seen are the ones where the founders have noticed that something on the side, outside of their core business, is actually thriving, or might even be growing, getting more traction, more quickly than their core product. And they've been, th…”

“The worst pivots are the ones where the team has come to run into a wall in a core product. They have no idea what to do next. So they start testing randomly, and those pivots rarely pan out, because there's an infinite universe of possibilities to test, but v…”

“The third risk is market risk, and this is the biggest risk that we are concerned about.”

“We're currently managing a sixty million dollar fund. It's our second fund, and our investment approach is to build a focused portfolio, spend quality time with each company to help them succeed and get to series A and series B.”

“So, how important it is to have a product roadmap, I think, is critical. Because you, in, in the technology space, it, your competitive landscape is extremely dynamic. If you only have enough ideas for the initial version of the product, and then you don't hav…”