Mattias Ljungman, partner at venture firm Atomico, discusses tech adoption trends in emerging markets to justify investing in Truecaller.
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“Most people today living in India, they will, they're not using laptops, they're doing directly into smartphones.”
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Ljungman: Only 2-3 local European VC funds focus on Series B+
“There's not as many funds focused on the sort of B and beyond. That are very much, you know, local European funds. You know, there's only a few of them. There's literally less than, well, I would say there's really two or three if you look pure, pure VC funds.”
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AssertionContradicted
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“Stockholm now has as many Billion-dollar companies per capita as the U.S. Sorry, San Francisco, and we need one more, and there'll be bigger, you know, so there'll be more, sort of, billion-dollar companies being created coming out of Stockholm.”
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AssertionSupported
Ljungman: European VC is 6-7x smaller than US, 12x at later stages
“Even though the, you know, I think the amount of capital that's being invested going into VC today is about 30% more than last year, we're still six or seven times smaller than the US. And if you go into the later stages, we're about 12 times smaller.”
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Insight
Ljungman: Europe needs entrepreneurs investing in entrepreneurs
“What Europe needs is entrepreneurs, investing entrepreneurs, and I think you're the best guy to do this.”
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AssertionNot checkable as stated
Ljungman: European VC funding is heavily concentrated in seed and Series A
“In Europe right now, there's a lot of money going into seed in Series A”
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AssertionSupported
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