Mobile healthcare, education and consumer finance are all...
Mobile healthcare, education and consumer finance are all hot areas for investors, venture capitalists said during a webinar Tuesday sponsored by Mobile Future. “Mobile underpins so much of what we're seeing,” said Paul Gladen with Hellgate Venture Network. “Everything is…
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being disrupted,” said Nick Efstratis, managing director of EPIC Ventures. “I look around and there’s opportunity everywhere.” Most venture capitalists are looking for the same thing, Efstratis said. “We want to hear that they're solving a big problem or a problem that will be big over time,” he said. “We want to hear that they've got domain expertise, meaning they know the players, they know the competition, they know the real pain points and then we want to hear what is their unfair advantage. What do they know that others in the market don’t?” Elizabeth Marchi, managing director of Frontier Angel Fund, said venture capitalists aren’t banks. “We are not about making loans,” she said. “We're about taking risks and putting equity into companies that have scale. I need to really understand what your market opportunity is."