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Sunny Dhillon (Signia Partners) - Grocery Store Technology, Why Beauty Brands Are Great To Invest In, and Changes in Retail

Sunny Dhillon (Signia Partners) - Grocery Store Technology, Why Beauty Brands Are Great To Invest In, and Changes in Retail

FromThe Consumer VC: Venture Capital I B2C Startups I Commerce | Early-Stage Investing I Brands


Sunny Dhillon (Signia Partners) - Grocery Store Technology, Why Beauty Brands Are Great To Invest In, and Changes in Retail

FromThe Consumer VC: Venture Capital I B2C Startups I Commerce | Early-Stage Investing I Brands

ratings:
Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Sep 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Our guest today is Sunny Dhillon, one of the Managing Director of Signia Ventures. Signia invests at the seed & series A stages in great entrepreneurs that are applying new technologies and innovative business models to old industries. Sunny's investments include Manscaped, Boxed, and MomentFeed.Previously Sunny cofounded Barstool, one of the first dating apps in the App store.Feel free to follow Sunny on Twitter @sundhillon. You can also follow your host, Mike, on Twitter @mikegelb. You can also follow for episode announcements @consumervc.What you'll learn on this episode -What initially attracted Sunny to venture capital and entrepreneurship? Some of the changes he's seeing and will continue to see in the grocery store model. How he's thinking about the current landscape when it comes to beauty, especially as it relates to trying new products and the sales process since folks aren't really going to stores/many stores aren't open?Has it been harder to find conviction in founders when he's meeting with them remotely? His due diligence process. The DTC channel during COVID. Other consumer trends that he's focused on. One thing that he would change when it came to venture capital? One book that inspired him personally and one book that inspired him professionally? His most recent investment. What's one company you had the opportunity to invest in, didn't and in retrospect wish you did?
Released:
Sep 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Consumer VC takes a look into early-stage consumer investing and venture capital. If you are interested in learning about consumer trends, have a b2c business and interested in learning about the fundraising process at the early stage, you have come to the right place.Mike interviews some of the top venture capitalists in the world that focus on B2C and consumer type companies or have a deep track record investing in these categories such as marketplaces, SaaS, social, CPG and non-tech subscription.Mike also interviews founders that are building some of the most disruptive consumer facing companies in the world. The conversation usually includes the insight the founder discovered, fundraising strategy, and the pitch.This podcast also includes bonus episodes. Each bonus episode dives into a particular subject that might not have to due with the fundraise or venture capital, but still would be helpful to founders. For example, a bonus episode on brand strategy or how to construct a board of directors. All bonus episodes will be clearly labeled.For all episodes, please visit www.theconsumervc.com. For updates, you can follow @mikegelb on Twitter.