Shah: Andrew Mitchell's Zig Capital backed six $100M+ valuations
Sumeet Shah · 20 VC: Are Unicorns Necessary To Make Big Returns and The Series A Crunch with Sumeet Shah @ Brand Foundry Ventures · Dec 23, 2015 · at 15:04
Sumeet Shah, Principal at Brand Foundry Ventures, shares performance metrics and valuations from partner Andrew Mitchell's former firm, Zig Capital.
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“I mean, with Andrew's old term, six out of them are over a hundred million dollar valuation. Two of them are over half a billion of those six, and then one of those six is 1.2 billion dollar valuation, and that's Warby. And those half billion are both Harry's and Birchbox.”
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