Restartup

Startup is like an invisible mesh of trust.

Akshay Sharma, CTO at Doc.AI

If you have a warm introduction, you are 13 times more likely to get funded.

Alice Wagner, managing director at the British Business Bank.

A crisis triggers a flight to quality behaviour amongst investors. The top quartile of startups typically gets the lion's share of the capital.

Arvind Purushotham, global head of venture investing at Citi Ventures

A startup is trying to find what works in a series of experiments, many of which fail.

Brad Feld, managing director at Foundry Group

A lot of things change in a crisis. As an investor, you are not really backing a business or a market in a crisis. You are backing the founders to find the right opportunities in the market.

Camilla Dolan, partner at Eka Ventures

As the crisis hit, we focussed a lot on ecosystem work and bringing people together. I felt like if we VC investors were lost, I couldn't imagine how founders felt.

Carmen Alfonso Rico, partner at Blossom Capital

Don't just do a pivot for the sake of attracting funding and or trying to show product-market fit for whatever you have. So I think the biggest question is, why should you pivot?

Chitresh Sharma, former CEO of Swipii

If you're in a fintech startup, where the team is young and visionary, you might be missing something, which is someone who's been on the block. Find a grey-haired person who has dealt with regulatory bodies.

Chris Skinner, author and nonexecutive director at 11FS