Growth Capital

“In the words growth capital, too much emphasis has been put on capital. It's become somewhat of a commodity. Our interest on the other hand was to focus on the word growth. We thought there was a lack of operator expertise and true knowledge around growth”

“There are companies that we liked many aspects of, but we didn't, declined to do a new investment into them, meaning a first investment into them, because we didn't feel necessarily that the team had an understanding of where their next dollars were going to c…”

“There's, like you said earlier, a bigger push for profitability near term, and more of a, like, it has to be really special to be excited about starting a journey that is going to take a billion plus dollars to scale.”

“Not having a lot of hundred million checks into India. Net net will be positive for everybody. Everybody. Yeah. I think I wouldn't regret on the contrary. If they come, then I would wonder what, like, you know, maybe, maybe we need to simply as a policy, start…”

“And I think we're going to see the migration of capital from growth to super early, and then actually price inflation at the seed, like we've never seen it before, ironically.”

“All of this capital that flooded the venture markets, this growth capital that came in over the last couple of years, It's gone. I mean, that's basically dried up.”

“Product market fit is what is most important for us as growth stage investor, investors. But what we like to do is that we don't want to wait for, ah, for this moment to come. We would like to be in touch with the founders and companies at a very early stage, …”

“If you're going up to a big market and you are a leader, then you actually want to lean in more with capital. Whereas if you get a lot more capital, but it's still very murky in terms of the competitive intensity, what you don't want to do is just flood the ma…”

“Yeah, so we just announced a new raise of fifteen million dollars in growth capital. So it takes our total raise to close to forty million.”

“I think deck makes a ton of sense if you have more than a few variables that have already been answered to. And you only require growth capital in order to just fuel the rocket and drive it forward.”

“We, you know, we've been aiming to get to the ten million annual revenue run rate before we raise so that we can raise growth capital.”

“It's really hard to raise growth capital, ah, especially off of revenues, ah, primarily because unless, and especially in this environment, and the reason is because as much as it sounds there's tons of growth money being thrown out there, like a hundred milli…”