S7E2 - Dinika Mahtani, Partner @ Cherry Ventures

Dinika Mahtani ( / dinika-mahtani-0a2494158 ) is a Partner at Cherry Ventures (www.cherry.vc/) ; an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of their businesses.
Dinika ( / dinika-mahtani-0a2494158 ) joins James Pringle ( / acoaaaxujtsbsyu7edrtab... ) and Hector Mason ( / acoaabimurobdig3nlb_xn... ) to share share her career in banking and then at Uber, angel investing, Cherry Ventures’ secret sauce to success, & so much more.
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[@b1ueocean]

London based but finding myself taking a look at the larger German market where a number of VCs there seem to understand great things in the long term can be achieved (from scratch) through larger pre-seed placements.
Setting out to disrupt big-tech incumbents with head-counts in the double-digit thousands while also securing the runway needed to go from pre-seed to early revenues is a 5m initial ticket situation.
Consolidating each of consumer ⌞Leisure⌝ and business ⌞Work⌝ separately but through a unified common services super-architecture is the xx-billion dollar gambit that will seem obvious to everyone in 2027.
How to find a VC that gets this now so I can tell my FAANG boss I’m off to go and engineer his biggest headache.

[@RidingUnicorns_]

Less and larger pre-seed investments is a general trend across all geographies. It makes sense for larger multi-stage funds to fund heavily early.