Schneider: True Ventures holds 75% of its investments outside Silicon Valley
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Toni Schneider is a partner at True Ventures. He shares the geographical allocation of True Ventures' venture investment portfolio.
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“Right now, I would say about a quarter of our investments are in Silicon Valley, about half are in the rest of the U S US, and then another Quarter or so in the rest of the world, primarily Europe and Africa”
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