Techstars London backs solo founders including Listable and Osper's Alec Farmer
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Tak Lo, Director at Techstars London, clarifies Techstars' policy on investing in single-founder startups and names specific portfolio investments.
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“I mean, there are some spectacular single founders that, that can do a ton, right? So for example, we backed listable from our last class. They, he was a single founder. Alec Farmer from Osper was also a single founder as well. But they were incredible.”
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