Hearing from Golden Gate Ventures: Recent Episodes
Golden Gate Ventures
This will serve as a refresher for those who have been through down rounds in the past and as a primer for those who have not—with practical steps and suggestions in navigating down rounds.
Q&A would also be anonymous - so ask away!
How will the down round affect the company?
What does it mean for current and future employees' equity?
How exactly is the business going to move forward?
Our first webinar hosted a “cloud panel” of investors, founders and CXOs powering the backbone of the online consumer economy, with companies active in areas from logistics to payments to global analytics.
Our purpose: to dissect the challenge-and-opportunity picture for young tech firms and their investors in Southeast Asia.
Panel #1 What are investors telling startups?
Moderated by Mohan Belani, CEO at e27
Chris Tran, Partner at North Ridge Partners
Vinnie Lauria, Partner at Golden Gate Ventures
Panel #2 Hearing from Regional FoundersModerated by Mercedes Ruehl, Journalist at the Financial Times
Moses Lo, CEO at Xendit
Shaun Chong, CTO at Ninjavan
Cindy Deng, APAC MD at AppAnnie
On the ground accountsRitesh Angural, CEO at Rovo
Nathanael Faibis, CEO at Alodokter
Hoang Trung, CEO at Loship
One of our most requested and popular workshops led by Michael Lints, Partner at Golden Gate Ventures. In this version, we had two of Cooley LLP's top tier top lawyers, Ferish Patel and Matthew Bartus, with us to answer your most pressing questions about term sheets. We also discussed the current fundraising climate and how to navigate through these challenging times.
For slides and more information: https://ggv.sg/fundraising-and-termsheets-panel
The Covid-19 pandemic set off a series of unprecedented challenges for LPs and GPs of private funds with regards to portfolio performance, capital deployment, and fundraising.
SpeakersMichael Lints, Partner at Golden Gate Ventures
Claudia Zeisberger, Professor of Entrepreneurship & Family Enterprise at INSEAD
Helen Wong, Partner at Qiming Ventures
Chris Loh, Managing Partner at Axiom Asia
Ed Grefenstette, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of The Dietrich Foundation
David Gonino, President and CIO at Alfred I. duPont Charitable Trust
Sarah Startup, Founder & CEO at Outperform Group
We talked about
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How limited partners look at alternative assets and fund allocations in the current climate
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How GPs are adapting to meet the needs of the current economic climate
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Learnings from past economic cycles
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Post-Covid-19 investment climate recovery and moving forward from an unchartered territory