Atomico

“I remember when I was Atomico, we were figuring out what to do with the state that Atomico had in in, in, in, in Stripe. And my strong recommendation was a big hold.”

“Atomico was built with a mission to disrupt the monopoly of Silicon Valley.”

“There is one row on this table where that need for validation is there even from the earliest stages from the seed. Which is this idea around the narrative. And this becomes really important because of this dynamic at the early stages where a lot of these area…”

“There isn't a minimum market size. We often get asked, like, you know, what do you want to see? And the reality is different funds will Expect different market sizes based on their own fund size, their own strategies, but I, one exercise that's always good to …”

“Culture needs to be a deliberate strategy and a consistent effort over time, and that you cannot course correct it, or that it's much harder to course correct later on. In particular, key elements of culture, such as diversity and inclusion, they become much h…”

“For us we don't have a set expected ARR at each of these stages, and I think we see that it varies. Sometimes we see series A or series B companies that might be still pre-launch and so that's why we'll look at some of these other ways to validate things like …”

“We are a pretty large fund, and so we will look for really outsized outcomes, multi-billion dollar type of outcomes, and sometimes you can, we can see, probably that's the most common one. Like, for me, sometimes I see this is gonna be a great business, but I …”

“What we have had challenges with in the past is, for instance, university spin-outs where you have like a 30% Owned by a university because you have taken the IP from there. I think those are very difficult cap tables for us to get into.”

“Prior to Tencent acquiring a majority stake in the company at a reported 10.2 billion dollar acquisition price, Ilka raised over one hundred and forty three million dollars for the company from Excel, Index, Atomico, IVP, LVP, Initial and Lifeline to name a fe…”

“We ended up racing almost twice as much as we wanted to race initially from an amazing group of people. Our lead investor is Ryan Graves, the co-founder of Uber. He, who has experience building a global marketplace. We got investment from Chris Saka, who, you …”

“In the last fortnight, they raised a whopping sixty-four million Series C, led by Atomico, with participation from Sequoia, Google Ventures, or GV, and the fantastic Brendan Wallace at Fifth Wall.”

“We're excited by our sixty-four million dollar Series C announcement that we recently made that was led by Atomico, and that capital is primarily going to be used for Aggressive geo expansion. And so, you'll see us in the top 25 NFL cities over the next two to…”

“Very sad to be leaving Atomaco, but very excited to be working on a new project in stealth.”

“We're interested in, in, in going in really at any stage, but really where we focus is on the later stages. So it's more the sort of series B and beyond”