EPISODE · Jan 11, 2022 · 35 MIN
#43 Luis Shemtov & Elad Verbin, Founding Partners of Lunar Ventures
from EUVC · host EUVC
Today we’re talking to Luis Shemtov and Elad Verbin are two of the three founding partners behind Lunar Ventures - Europe's hands-down most technical early stage VC investing in frontier computer science deep tech. The result was an episode full of learnings packed in great one-liners for emerging managers - from a team that closed 4 Fund of Funds. In this episode you’ll learn:- What made Lunar so sexy that they managed to land four European Fund of Funds & bounds of established GPs- How months of iteration around European deep tech founders’ problems led to the founding of Lunar Ventures- Why emerging managers need to solve for the question of why LPs should invest in the first close & how Elad thinks about it.- Why raising SPVs is a poor entry route into deep tech VC & what it means to be trailblazing in the VC Twilight Zone.
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Today we’re talking to Luis Shemtov and Elad Verbin are two of the three founding partners behind Lunar Ventures - Europe's hands-down most technical early stage VC investing in frontier computer science deep tech. The result was an episode full of learnings packed in great one-liners for emerging managers - from a team that closed 4 Fund of Funds. In this episode you’ll learn:- What made Lunar so sexy that they managed to land four European Fund of Funds & bounds of established GPs- How months of iteration around European deep tech founders’ problems led to the founding of Lunar Ventures- Why emerging managers need to solve for the question of why LPs should invest in the first close & how Elad thinks about it.- Why raising SPVs is a poor entry route into deep tech VC & what it means to be trailblazing in the VC Twilight Zone.
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#43 Luis Shemtov & Elad Verbin, Founding Partners of Lunar Ventures
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