20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenbaum

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🗓️ 2 November 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Antoine Nussenbaum is a Principal and member of the founding team of Felix Capital. Prior to Felix, Antoine was a Partner at Atlas Global, a private equity fund originally part of GLG Partners. Over the past five years he has worked closely with various early-stage digital startups including Mirakl, Jellynote, Pave, Reedsy and 31Dover and actively helped them launch their businesses. If that wasn't enough he has also been involved since inception with Huckletree, a fast growing coworking operator dedicated to the UK digital community which was started by his wife.

To check out the available positions at Felix Capital click here!

In Today's Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How did Antoine make his move into the world of VC?

2.) What sectors do Felix invest in? What stage? Geography?

3.) How do Felix position themselves in the VC space? How do Felix plan to differentiate between other VCs firms in Europe? As for the structure of the fund, why did Felix choose an advisor heavy approach?

4.) Why does Antoine think Europe has the edge at the moment? Also, with the rise of the Nordics and Berlin, why did Felix choose to setup in London?

5.) How does Antoine assess the London and European funding and tech environment at the moment? Does Antoine agree with the media hype over a tech bubble?

6.) How do digital brands address the issue of the millenials with reducing brand loyalty? Does Antoine think this will be a problem for consumer startups in the fashion, food and travel space?

Items Mentioned In Today's Show:

Felix's Manifesto, HuckleTree, Co-Founder @ Huckletree on CNBC

Antoine's Fave Book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Capital In The Twenty-First Century by Thomas Picketty

Antoine's Fave Productivity Tools: Streak, Slack, Evernote, Pocket

Antoine's Fave Blog or Newsletter: Fred Wilson: AVC, ProductHunt

Antoine's Most Recent Investment: The Food Assembly

As always you can follow Harry, Antoine, The Twenty Minute VC and Felix Capital on Twitter here!

If you would like to see a more colourful side to Harry with many a mojito session, you can follow him on Instagram here!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the 20 minute VC with your host, Harry Stebbings. Now, I'm super excited today,
0:06.2	as I'm delighted to welcome Antoine Nussenbaum at Felix Capital. Now, a little background on
0:12.4	Antoine. Antoine is a principal and founding member of Felix, and prior to Felix, Antoine was a partner at
0:18.7	Atlas Global, a private equity fund originally part of GLG partners.
0:24.1	And over the past five years, he's worked closely with various early stage digital start-ups, including Jelly Note, Miracle, which Antoine helped to bootstrap, and only recently in July, raised a fantastic 20 million in Series B funding,
0:38.6	Reed Z and 31 Dover, and actively helped them launch their businesses.
0:43.9	If that wasn't enough, he's also been involved since the inception with HuckleTree,
0:48.2	a fast-growing co-working operator dedicated to the UK digital community,
0:53.3	which was started by his wife, Gabriela.
0:55.7	I have to say, for anyone looking for office space in London, you must check out HuckleTree at
1:00.5	www.wackletree.com. And I've attached a link to their site and their co-founder
1:06.5	Gabriela discussing their office space on CNBC on Friday. And it was really, really amazing and a
1:13.1	fantastic place for all startups and VCs, so do check that out. But not only am I super excited to have
1:19.7	Antoine, as he's an incredible VC with an awesome approach to startups and investing, but also because
1:25.3	Felix is one of the most exciting funds in London, in my opinion,
1:29.5	a VC firm for the creative class on the cutting edge of technology and creativity.
1:35.1	And we constantly hear that VC is a founder-friendly, but having spent time with the Felix team,
1:39.9	they really are amazing for the entrepreneurs, actually shown through a great poster in their
1:45.0	office which says, work hard and be nice to people. And that really is their ethos at Felix.
1:50.4	An incredible fund with a very exciting future ahead. So without further ado, it's time to welcome
1:55.6	the man himself, Antoine Nusson Nussonbourne.
2:02.6	You have now arrived at your destination.
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