Scale Ups, Venture Capital and raising money.

2020-10-01

In this episode, I chat with Jonathan Hollis, one of the co-founders of Mountside Ventures. I met Jonathan when he was at PwC, running their Scale-up programme, which I mentor on. 9 months ago he and some of his colleagues, spun out Mountside Ventures with a view to change how VCs and Scale-ups can connect and raise capital. This is both on the Fund side as well as the Scale-up side. We discuss why he left the corporate machine. What is has been like launching a business, during a pandemic, from his kitchen ...

In this episode, I chat with Jonathan Hollis, one of the co-founders of Mountside Ventures.

I met Jonathan when he was at PwC, running their Scale-up programme, which I mentor on.

9 months ago he and some of his colleagues, spun out Mountside Ventures with a view to change how VCs and Scale-ups can connect and raise capital. This is both on the Fund side as well as the Scale-up side.

We discuss why he left the corporate machine.

What is has been like launching a business, during a pandemic, from his kitchen table.

He shares what they saw as a gap in the market and what they are doing to address it.

If you are a VC looking to raise institutional money or from family offices, you are selling futures - so what do you do?

How does VC find the next Unicorn?

If you are a scale-up, where do you place your bets?

Pitch and Marketing tactics, what is Jonathan seeing on trend at the moment?

You can contact Jonathan here

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