Microsoft Ventures
fund on 3 shows · 6 statements across 3 episodes
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Harrell: Kahoot Has Raised $26.5M From Microsoft Ventures and Disney
“We've raised 26 and a half million dollars to date. And those investors include Microsoft Ventures. Disney's put in a lot of some money. We also have the two leading Nordic firms that have put money into the company.”
Kashyap: Developing young VCs requires letting them write small checks early
“The lessons I've learned which have worked well is, you hire what you think are the best, smartest people, you give them responsibility very early on, and you give them responsibility by letting them essentially write small checks, make small investments”
Kashyap: Corporate VCs lack fixed check sizes and ownership targets
“In the corporate VC environment, we don't have constraints of, we have to write a check of X million dollars. We have to get 20% ownership. We only, only can invest in a sector that the LPs gave us money for.”
Kashyap: Corporate VC share will grow to 35% over 5-10 years
“Now, I don't have a crystal ball, but there was a recent report, actually just very topical, released, commissioned by Telstra, that came out just a couple of days back, which said that they see corporate VC going from 25% to 35%, I think, over the next five t…”
Kashyap: Good financial investments drive strategic value in corporate VC
“I've always been a believer that good financial investments lead to good strategic outcomes. And you know, if a company doesn't do well, there's no strategic benefit for anybody.”
Microsoft Ventures provides $500k in cloud credits per startup with zero equity
“No, actually the whole program is completely free so we don't take any equity, we're not charging them even for space it's, it actually comes down to a cloud offer that we're putting in front of them and we're not even, Really forcing them to use the cloud off…”