March 9, 2022
LACONIA
Meet the VC is a monthly panel event hosted by Escalon and its partners. This month, we had an engaging discussion with Geri Kirilova of Laconia Capital to discuss fundraising, investment thesis, the current investment climate and more. with our partners SVB and JustWorks.
About Geri Kirilova
Geri Kirilova is a Managing Partner at Laconia where she leads seed investments in business-to-business software companies. Prior to joining Laconia, Geri was a Business Associate at Techstars, where she facilitated program operations and worked directly with ten portfolio companies on customer acquisition, growth strategy, fundraising, business development, and messaging and storytelling. Geri began her venture capital career in Central and Eastern Europe at Launchub Ventures in Sofia and Credo Ventures in Prague.
About Lanconia
Laconia leads pre-seed and seed rounds in b2b software companies that revolutionize legacy industries. We are currently investing out of our third fund, writing checks of $500k-$1M. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we support founders with the only things that matter in the early days: sales acceleration, operational execution, and capital strategy.
Watch the replay of the event above, or here.
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