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Nussenbaum predicted a surge of new UK VC firms in late 2015
“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.”
Felix Capital avoids local champions in favor of globally scalable businesses
“We don't like, we're not so fan of backing local champion, which much more looking at business that has really the capacity to scale worldwide, but Usually in quite capital efficient.”
Salesforce discontinued RelateIQ's European clients after acquiring the CRM startup
“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.”
Felix Capital closed its debut fund at a $120M hard cap
“Originally we were trying to raise eighty million dollars, hoping to go to a hundred million, and we were very lucky that the fundraising went well we had investors from US and Europe trusting us, and we ended up closing the fund at our hard cap set up by our …”
Swimwear brand Triangl generated millions in sales primarily through Instagram
“I just have in mind a brand that I've been found very fascinating in this space is for example, the baby suit brand called Triangle that has been doing most of his growth for Instagram and now been Selling millions and millions of dollars of bathing suit just …”
Felix Capital co-invested in The Food Assembly alongside Union Square Ventures
“I think it's going to be again LaRuche, LaRuche qui dit oui it's again called, it's called the Food Assembly in the UK. So it's a food marketplace. It's an investment we did with Union Square Venture and Fred Wilson.”
Nussenbaum: The Food Assembly could be Felix Capital's longest-held position
“There's still a lot to do, and it could be, it might end up being one of the position we're going to hold for the longest in, in the phone, but we are truly passionate about what they are building.”
Felix Capital employs an 11-member global venture advisory team
“We have basically 11 guys on board that are, some of them are entrepreneurs we've backed in the past, some are all of them are actually people we know for a very long time. And they are very, they are great operators in all the segments that we actually cover.…”