Hari: Pear VC and Boost VC provided $1M to launch Ego in 2023
“I had my first VC meeting ever with a VC named Paige Vaughn. He runs Pear VC in Palo Alto, and the meeting went super well, and they offered a half a million dollar check the next day, and a few Days after that, I met with Adam Draper from BoostVC, and they al…”
Boost VC Has Invested in Approximately 120 Companies Across Six Cohorts
“Since then at boost VC, we've been, we've run Six tribes. We call them tribes. They're three month programs where we provide housing, office space, and we invest in companies, and we've invested in about a 120 companies.”
Boost VC Focuses Its Accelerator Investment Program on Blockchain and VR
“We're not, Going global, we're bringing people to the United States in order to train them in specific industries such as blockchain and virtual reality is where our focuses have been.”
Boost VC invests $10k-$25k across 50 startups per year
“It's an accelerator program. So we do two, two tribes a year, two sessions a year that are three months, they're three months long where we provide housing office space and we invest in the companies and we invest between 10 and 25,000 dollars. To 25 companies…”
Adam Draper: Boost VC's $6.6M second fund will back roughly 180 companies
“Current funds, so I've raised two funds, and the first one was smaller, but my current fund was about 6.6 million dollars, and that'll invest in about 200 companies, 180 companies.”
Adam Draper pitched 3,000 investors to close 35 LPs for $6.6M fund
“I so it took me 12 months to raise my money. So, so from when I opened to raise money to close, it was like no, no, Back in 2013 to november 2220 14, and I closed 6.6 million bucks. I had to, I reached out to probably 3000 investors. I ended up meeting with ab…”
Adam Draper: Boost VC portfolio company Joystream merges BitTorrent with Bitcoin
“We have one company in this tribe that's called joy stream run by a solo founder who is trying to merge two technologies that have never been merged before, which is the peer to peer technology of BitTorrent with the peer to peer technology of Bitcoin. So basi…”