Normal is dead!

For years, entrepreneurs have called the shots in the startup ecosystem as an abundance of capital chased a limited supply of good ideas.

But in a matter of weeks, as businesses everywhere lurch to a halt due to the coronavirus pandemic, the pendulum has swung decidedly back toward venture capitalists.

Are you screwed if you need to raise money today?

Join the webinar here

Speaker :

Carlos Diaz, Co-founder & General Partner at The Refiners

Now : General Partner and co-founder of The Refiners, a Cross-Border Seed Fund based in San Francisco that helps international startups thrive in Silicon Valley. Before: Co-founded Emakina, a leading independent European digital agency group - listed on Euronext since 2006. Founded blueKiwi Software, raised $15m, eventually acquired by ATOS. Co-founded Kwarter, raised $4m with T-Ventures and Kinetic Ventures.Helped 58% of his pre-seed investments raise +$1m with world-class investors in Europe and in the US (Y Combinator Fund, KPCB, Forerunner, Balderton Capital, Alven, Partech, ID Invest, Sequoia Scouts, 1984, Bolt, Speedinvest…). In September 2012, Carlos founded a group calling themselves “Les Pigeons” who quickly shot to 75,000 members, set up as a protest against Hollande’s planned doubling of capital gains tax to 60 percent.In 2019, Carlos created the Silicon Carne podcast which soon became one of the top French media asset in Tech with a highly targeted audience of startup founders and investors. On-going and proprietary deal flow of early-stage startups from France and Europe.

Webinar 2 (May 14th - 6 PM) : Chaos is a ladder ! Link here.

Normal is dead !