In the first episode, we cover W talks: tech. Our Global Head of Withers tech, James Shaw sits down with key figures in the venture capital community: Fred Destin the Founder of Stride.VC and Christian Dörffer, the CEO and Co-Founder of Sweet Capital. We take a look at how VCs and funds are currently managing their existing portfolios and assessing investment opportunities. This is aimed at providing informative soundbites to help CEOs and Founders navigate this crisis and to help them make decisions.

Stride.VC is a seed-stage venture capital fund operating in London and Paris and started by Fred Destin and TwentyMinuteVC Founder Harry Stebbings. Sweet Capital is a fund established by the Founders of King.com (Candy Crush), which focuses on deploying capital into early stage consumer technology companies across the world.

Originally published 24 April, 2020

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