Today, we welcome back Lucas Timberlake, Partner with Fintech Ventures Fund to the Charlotte Angel Connection. As you may remember, last week we spoke with Lucas about how his experience brought him to be a VC, what types of companies they look for, what traits are they seeking in a management team, and other questions in a pretty wide ranging conversation.
This week’s podcast expands on that wide ranging conversation. Our discussion today hits on many of these questions outlined below:
Why doesn’t Charlotte have a Venture Capital fund?
How does a seed stage VC fund help their companies in acquisitions and exits?
How are the investments in their fund doing three years in?
What is it like to invest in a failure – a company that doesn’t make it?
Does Lucas track the companies they pass on?
How much is valuation a factor in their investment decision?
What’s the ideal holding period for their early stage investments?
How do they typically expect to exit their holding in a company?
Stay tuned for next week. We have a slight adjustment to our schedule as Brett Brohl, from TechStars Farm to Fork – a new accelerator out of TechStars – joined the podcast. Since Brett isn’t from Charlotte and hasn’t been much time here, especially in the last couple of years, we did an interview with Brett before he came to Charlotte to get his expectations. We will follow up with him after he left to talk with him about his experience in Charlotte. I’m excited about bringing this to you.
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