The series of interviews with special startups for 2024 startups is a celebration of all this year's technology champions. You won it! The Hackennoon community is looking forward to knowing more about your trip!
Tell us about you.
I am Yotis Tonnellier, founder and managing partner at Yobe ventures. We are an international venture capital company focused on SaaS technological support, Fintech, AI, Proptech, etc. Our mission is simple: we invest in founders who have reached the product product market and are ready to evolve worldwide – supporting them not only with capital, but with a decade of global investors, founders and hard -won operators.
Tell us how your startup changes the world.
Yobe Ventures does not only deploy capital; We build a Relational ecosystem. We help the founders accelerate the traction, the open capital routes and develop early liquidity strategies. Our ultimate goal is to be the Partner VC that founder and LPS trust when everything is at stake – Not just when things are smooth.
What distinguishes you from competition?
Three things:
(1)Our founder-operator roots– We have been in their place.
(2)Our world LP network– We bring capital Plus Deep Relations Lever.
(3)Our No-BS, strategic commitment – We invest with conviction, let's remain practical and do not play spraying and preparation.
What does this mean for you to win this title?
We are incredibly honored! Winner Startup of the year 2024 in venture capitalis a public recognition of the years that we have spent quietly to establish confidence, provide feedback and deeply align with founders. It's energizing – and a signal to continue to push even further.
What do you like about your team and why are you those who participate in this mission?
At Yobe Ventures, we like that each member of the team is a builder and operator in the soul. We are not just here to write checks – we wrap the sleeves, challenge hypotheses, and clutter With our founders. Innovation comes from confidence, and we favor this by treating each founder as a long -term partner, not only as a transaction.
With hindsight, what step was the biggest turning point for your startup?
The biggest change was to reach Adjustment of the transparent product market-That is to say, know exactly what founders we serve best. Once we have reduced attention to repeat the founders with a strong early traction, everything has aligned itself: our portfolio performance, our capital partnerships and our ability to offer value beyond money.
What is a precious lesson you have learned this year that you are transmitting to other startups?
2024 taught us the importance of Early liquidity strategies. In a world of delayed outings and unpredictable public procurement, help the founders guarantee partial liquidity earlier creates winners for the founders, teams and LPs. For 2025, we double creative liquidity games.
How do you plan that your industry is evolving in the years to come and how will your startup remain in advance?
VC evolves in one Capital + Strategy + Liquidity Game. It is no longer enough to write checks – companies must offer global range, layer of layers of layers and a real advantage. Yobe Ventures stays ahead by relentlessly adapting our approach to match where the founders (and the markets) go.
How do you or your business intend to adopt the responsibility of this title in 2025?
We will use this recognition for Amplify the visibility of our portfolio foundersHelp bring capital and network advantages to the neglected regions and continue to establish a standard for what venture capital aligned by the founder should look like.
What goals are you looking forward to reaching in 2025?
- Close our Fund of $ 100 million II
- Deepening of relations with high -level institutional and family LPs
- Support More than 10 high conviction companies Through our basic geographies
- Conduct Early liquidity wins For our founders and investors
2024 was crazy, with all new technicians and all geopolitics fluctuations. What are the impacts of these on your startup and in your industry as a whole? Be as brief or as detailed as you wish.
We looked hard at Flexibility and diversification– between sectors, capital partners and even liquidity paths. The geopolitical shocks, the acceleration of the AI ​​and the market oscillations have struck everyone, but the companies that have remained agile are those that are thriving today.
We would be delighted with your comments on Hackennoon as a technological publication! How was your experience with us?
Hackennoon stands out like a daring and authentic technological publication This champion champion not only the big names, but the outsiders and the rising players. We loved engaging with the platform and we were impatient to deepen this relationship.
Words of wisdom that you would like to share with us?
Stay humble. Stay resilient.
And always remember: in the company, it is theRelations you establish This composed more powerfully than any size of control.
About Hackernoon startups of the year
Startups of the year 2024 are the flagship event of Hackennoon, celebrating startups, technology and the spirit of innovation. Currently in its third iteration, the prestigious Internet prize recognizes and celebrates technological startups of all shapes and sizes. This year, more than 150,000 entities in more than 4,200 cities, 6 continents and more than 100 industries will participate in the crown to be crowned the best startup of the year! Millions of votes have been expressed in recent years, and many stories have been written on these daring and rising startups.
The winners will benefit from a free interview on Hackennoon and a journal of technology companies with persistent leafy.
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