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9 Tips to Turn Your Startup Board into a Secret Weapon
Samaipata is an early stage founders’ fund investing in digital platforms displaying increasing returns at scale, across Europe.
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Making Justice Accessible for Everyone - Why We Invested into Legl
It’s tough for a lawyer (like myself) to not get carried away when the topic of access to justice comes up. Having access to legal advice to defend your claims or defend yourself from the claims of others should be a basic right.
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50 Is the New 30 - Why We Invested in Passions
Along with gaming and hardware, online dating is a frown upon topic in the venture capital industry. VC investors just do not invest in dating. Full stop. As Andrew Chen explained here, some reasons typically put forward include:
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Barcelona-Founded Fashion Startup 21Buttons Secures $17 Million to Expand to the US
Barcelona-based 21Buttons, a fashion-centred social shopping app, has raised $17 million in a Series B funding round led by Idinvest Partners.
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6 Reasons Why We Invested in Totem
Our latest investment, Totem, is the 10th company to join the Samaipata’s family and our 3rd deal in France, together with Food Chéri and Procsea. Even if — let’s be honest — our
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Customer Love Framework: What We Look for in Digital Brands
We think of a brand as any product, content or service that establishes an emotional connection with the end user/customer (be it B2C or B2B) and create communities, a sense of belonging, a lifestyle that goes beyond a specific product or service.
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Spotahome Raises $40M Series B Led by Kleiner Perkins: 4 Lessons Learned from the Process
Today at Samaipata we are extremely happy for our portfolio company Spotahome. They’ve just achieved a very important milestone: raising a $40m Series B led by KPCB.
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Our 9th Investment: Procsea, the Revolution of the B2B Fish Market
H1 2018 has been pretty busy at Samaipata! After launching operations in London and Paris, celebrating our first exit.
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How to Nail Your First VC Call
To be honest, I don’t know how many calls with founders we have had the privilege to do after 3 years of operations at Samaipata.
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What You Always Wanted to Know About Samaipata But Never Asked
One of the things that makes being a VC so fascinating is that big part of our job is to ask questions and learn from exceptional entrepreneurs.
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Defensibility in Digital Platforms
The main driver of long-term value creation. “Would you invest in a marketplace in the absence of network effects?” A tricky question I was recently asked by David Pritchard, a marketplace founder (OpenTable Europe) at an event we, at Samaipata, organised in London
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Our First Exit: Sodexo Acquires Foodcheri
Today we’re delighted to announce our first exit, and we do so in the best scenario possible. In one of our industries of expertise, FoodTech, and involving returns well over the target of the fund.
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Somos un fondo early stage, creado por y para fundadores, que invierte en negocios digitales con efectos de red.
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A rebufo de modelos fundacionales como ChatGPT o Midjourney, las startups tienen la oportunidad de diseñar sus propias capas de software sin necesidad de recurrir a grandes cantidades de capital.
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VIVLA: la proptech que revoluciona el concepto de residencias vacacionales
La startup madrileña (28 millones levantados) oferta casas exclusivas a una fracción del precio original bajo la fórmula de la copropiedad y con un potente bastidor tecnológico orientado a la flexibilidad.
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Fuentes de Financiación de Startups
¿Quieres saber cuáles son las principales formas de financiar una startup? El equipo de inversión de Samaipata explica brevemente las principales fuentes de financiación de negocios tecnológicos.
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Carrera en Venture Capital
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué es Venture Capital (VC)? ¿Cómo funciona un fondo de Venture Capital? El equipo de inversión de Samaipata te lo cuenta de primera mano.
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¿Qué es Venture Capital?
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué es Venture Capital (VC)? ¿Cómo funciona un fondo de Venture Capital? El equipo de inversión de Samaipata te lo cuenta de primera mano.
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