Blaise Matuidi & Ilan Abehassera (Origins) on launching a VC fund

Entrepreneur Talks by STATION F

In this new episode of Entrepreneur Talks, we sit down with Blaise Matuidi and Ilan Abehassera, Co-founders and General Partners of Origins, to learn more about building a VC fund that combines funding with influence.

Origins is a Venture Capital fund investing across Paris, NYC and Miami in legendary consumer founders. In this episode of Entrepreneur Talks, we hear more about how Origins is funding early stage companies with the help of their limited partners (LPs) who have a combined social media following of 160,000,000.

Tune in to this new episode to learn about the founding story behind the fund, how Blaise, Ilan and their fund co-founders spotted an opportunity to combine early-stage funding with access to influence, and the many lessons to be shared between the sports and investing world.

This episode was recorded in French 🇫🇷

Topics

01:00 to 05:45 — Introduction to Blaise and Ilan

05:45 to 11:00 — Presentation of Origins

11:00 to 19:30 — From Zoom call to VC fund co-founders

19:30 to 27:00 — US vs Europe, on the pitch and in the boardroom

27:00 to 29:00 — Raising the fund

29:00 to 35:00 — Investment thesis and founder-market-fit

35:00 to 41:00 — Making the move from Angel Investor to General Partner

41:00 to 43:30 — Dealflow realtalk

43:30 to 54:00 — Learning resilience and dealing with failure

54:00 to 56:00 — The importance of emotional intelligence

57:00 to the end — Outro questions: 1 word to describe entrepreneurship, a dream LP, unpopular opinion about tech or investment

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This episode is hosted by Yacine Sqalli, and produced with STATION F.

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