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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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4.4637 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Roseanne Wincek is an investor with IVP, one of the leaders in growth financing with a portfolio including the likes of Snap, AppDynamics, SuperCell and Slack. At IVP, Roseanne focuses on investing in later-stage, high-growth consumer and enterprise companies, currently serving as a Board Observer for MasterClass and actively working with IVP’s investments in Compass, Glossier, and Qubole. Prior to IVP, Roseanne was a Principal with Canaan Partners where she completed transactions for Beckon, Metacloud, and Stayful, just to name a few. Prior to VC, Roseanne was a co-founder @ imthemusic working to built music apps on the early Facebook platform.

 

In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How Roseanne made her way from science labs to startups and one of the valleys leading growth stage funds?

2.) Question from Maha Ibrahim @ Canaan Partners: How has the transition been from early to late stage? How do the industries differ in terms of startup visibility? Assessing the "what could be"? Allocation to reserve funding? Expected hold period?

3.)Why does Roseanne believe we are seeing a blurring of the lines between early and late stage? What is the effect for late stage of earlier stage funds having opportunity funds? What is the effect for early stage funds to see growth funds investing earlier??

4.) Why does Roseanne believe go to market strategy is now more important than ever? How serious does Roseanne believe the incumbency with regards to distribution channels is? Does this mean startups have to develop proprietary organic distribution channels?

5.) How does Roseanne view competition within the financing market? Question from Jenny Lefcourt @ Freestyle: How has Roseanne consistently gotten into some of the hottest most competitive deals?

Items Mentioned In Today’s Show:

Roseanne’s Fave Book: Einstein's Refrigerator: Tales of Hot & Cold

Roseanne’s Most Recent Investment: Masterclass

As always you can follow HarryThe Twenty Minute VC and Roseanne on Twitter here!

Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the 20 minute VC with me, your host, Harry Stebbings, and it would be great to see you on

0:03.9

Snapchat at H. Stebbings. There, you can suggest future guests for the show and ask any questions

0:08.5

that you'd love to hear future guests answer. But time for the show today, and I'm very excited

0:12.4

to welcome Roseanne Winchuk to the hot seat today. Now, Rosanne is an investor with IVP. You might remember we had the fantastic Jules Moles from IVP on the show previously, and they

0:21.5

are one of the leaders in growth financing, with a portfolio including the likes of Snap, App Dynamics,

0:26.9

Supercell and Slack, just to name a few from their incredible portfolio.

0:30.4

At IVP, Roseanne focuses on investing in later stage, high growth consumer and enterprise

0:35.0

companies, currently serving as a board observer for MasterClos and

0:38.4

actively working with IVP's investments in Compass, Glossier and Kubol. Prior to IVP,

0:43.5

Razan was a principal with Canaan partners, where she completed transactions for Becken, Metacloud,

0:48.3

and Stafel, just to name a few. Prior to VC, Rosam was a co-found at I'm the Music,

0:53.3

working to build music apps on the very early

0:55.5

Facebook platform. I do also want to say a big thank you to two prior guests on the show,

0:59.9

Layla Sturdy at Capital G and Jenny Lefkoor at Freestyle, for the intro to Rosan today, without

1:04.5

which this episode would not have been possible. But before we dive into today's show, very few pieces of software are a must for the majority of VCs I have on the show.

1:12.7

But E-Shares most certainly is. E-Shares is the number one cap table management platform,

1:17.5

allowing for equity management, 409A valuations, and liquidity, all in one place.

1:22.2

And E-Shares is made for companies of all sizes with over 5,000 trusted customers, including the lights of

1:27.7

Squarespace, Kickstarter and DoorDash, just to name a few. So try out the must-have service

1:32.7

of the industry and head over to e-shares inc.com. It really is a must. And once you have all

1:37.6

the paperwork tied down with e-sharees, you can now engage with your employees. And that's where

1:41.7

Fond comes in. Fond is the employee engagement suite with three

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