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Antoine Nussenbaum

Co-Founder and Partner, Felix Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Antoine Nussenbaum is a co-founder and partner at Felix Capital, a London-based venture firm backing digital lifestyle brands and related enabling technologies. He has led investments and served on boards for companies such as TravelPerk, HungryPanda, Manual, Papier, and Unmind.

8statements → 4claims → 3claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 4.12/5average certainty → 1.38/5average debate potential → 4.4/5argument clarity · the sources → 5said about them ↓

3 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 2 assertions · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Antoine argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Nussenbaum predicted a surge of new UK VC firms in late 2015
“There's much more new VCs coming in the market in the UK. We've seen a few last year with Arcef, Mosaic, and so on, and there will be much more in, in the next few months.”
Antoine Nussenbaum Nov 2, 2015 ▶ 14:19 20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenbaum

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.4 / 5 directness 4.8 · coherence 4.6 · precision 4.2 · compression 3.9

answered every one of 12 assessed questions directly

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

227 words/min while actually speaking · 73.5 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,952 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 1/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 2/10
setup questions received 85%

Everything Antoine Nussenbaum said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Held up
Nussenbaum predicted a surge of new UK VC firms in late 2015
“There's much more new VCs coming in the market in the UK. We've seen a few last year with Arcef, Mosaic, and so on, and there will be much more in, in the next few months.”
Antoine Nussenbaum Nov 2, 2015 ▶ 14:19 20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenbaum
Disclosure
Felix Capital avoids local champions in favor of globally scalable businesses
“We don't like, we're not so fan of backing local champion, which much more looking at business that has really the capacity to scale worldwide, but Usually in quite capital efficient.”
Antoine Nussenbaum Nov 2, 2015 ▶ 15:46 20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenbaum
Assertion Supported
Salesforce discontinued RelateIQ's European clients after acquiring the CRM startup
“On the CRM side, we started with RelateIQ. Sadly, they got bought out by Salesforce, and they decided to discontinue their European clients, which was a bit annoying.”
Antoine Nussenbaum Nov 2, 2015 ▶ 18:02 20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenbaum
Disclosure
Felix Capital closed its debut fund at a $120M hard cap
“Originally we were trying to raise eighty million dollars, hoping to go to a hundred million, and we were very lucky that the fundraising went well we had investors from US and Europe trusting us, and we ended up closing the fund at our hard cap set up by our …”
Antoine Nussenbaum Nov 2, 2015 ▶ 5:53 20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenbaum
Assertion Supported
Swimwear brand Triangl generated millions in sales primarily through Instagram
“I just have in mind a brand that I've been found very fascinating in this space is for example, the baby suit brand called Triangle that has been doing most of his growth for Instagram and now been Selling millions and millions of dollars of bathing suit just …”
Antoine Nussenbaum Nov 2, 2015 ▶ 17:18 20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenbaum
Disclosure
Felix Capital co-invested in The Food Assembly alongside Union Square Ventures
“I think it's going to be again LaRuche, LaRuche qui dit oui it's again called, it's called the Food Assembly in the UK. So it's a food marketplace. It's an investment we did with Union Square Venture and Fred Wilson.”
Antoine Nussenbaum Nov 2, 2015 ▶ 22:07 20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenbaum
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nussenbaum: The Food Assembly could be Felix Capital's longest-held position
“There's still a lot to do, and it could be, it might end up being one of the position we're going to hold for the longest in, in the phone, but we are truly passionate about what they are building.”
Antoine Nussenbaum Nov 2, 2015 ▶ 23:06 20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenbaum
Disclosure
Felix Capital employs an 11-member global venture advisory team
“We have basically 11 guys on board that are, some of them are entrepreneurs we've backed in the past, some are all of them are actually people we know for a very long time. And they are very, they are great operators in all the segments that we actually cover.…”
Antoine Nussenbaum Nov 2, 2015 ▶ 10:49 20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenbaum

The other half of the tape: Antoine Nussenbaum's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 5 times in 4 episodes on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenba Nov 2, 2015 15m
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