Antoine Nussenbaum, co-founder of venture firm Felix Capital, discusses the software tools his firm used when starting out and why they had to transition away from RelateIQ.
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“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.”
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PredictionHeld up
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“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.”
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Disclosure
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AssertionSupported
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Disclosure
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PredictionNot checkable as stated
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