VCs Off the Record with Gayle Jennings-O'Byrne
Hosted by Gayle Jennings-O'Byrne · Wocstar Fund
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- 2020
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About VCs Off the Record with Gayle Jennings-O'Byrne
Real talk with real investors. This podcast is for founders, startups, and investors seeking brutally honest insights about raising capital and investment funds. Have you ever tanked an investor meeting or made a bad investment? Well, we talk to some of the top investors, venture capitalists, and women who have raised money for their startups so that you get some real answers on how to nail a pitch, secure your bag, or rebound from rejection! Join our host Gayle Jennings O’Byrne, co-founder of the Wocstar Fund and champion for female entrepreneurs, as we go “off the record"!
- Publisher
- Wocstar Fund
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 26 Mar 2025
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[…] Is there types of technology? Is there geographies? Yeah. So we are seed stage investors. So the most important thing is that the company needs to be seed stage, right? And then the second most important thing is is that they need to have a very capital-efficient business model. And for us, that means that there's a clear path to getting to $50 million or more in revenue on less than $50 million in total capital raised. And I would say in this particular market, we'd probably love to see the company do it on even less than $50 million. Yeah. But within that, we're sector agnostic, but I would say that in order to kind of fit the model of capital efficiency that we're looking for, 99 times out of 100, the company is going to need to be a technology company or technology enabled in some way. […]
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Gayle Jennings-O'Byrne host the show. Published by Wocstar Fund.
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