#72 Carmen Alfonso Rico (Cocoa): 'We back killers with a heart'
About this episode
Carmen Alfonso Rico discusses Cocoa Ventures' investment thesis and the importance of fun in entrepreneurship.
This is the At The Money podcast of Golden Egg Check , in which I, Thomas Mensink, discuss growth and investment strategies with leading startup entrepreneurs and venture capital investors. Today my guest is Carmen Alfonso Rico, co-founder and partner at Cocoa Ventures 🍫. Cocoa invests in pre-seed and seed stage in Europe and US, most often together with other VCs. They back ‘killers with a heart’. In this episode Carmen explains what she means with that, what Cocoa’s investment thesis is and why having fun is a very important take-away for all founders and investors. This episode is made possible by the NVP .
People in this episode
Host: Thomas Mensink
Guest: Carmen Alfonso Rico
Topics covered
- investment strategies
- venture capital
- startup entrepreneurship
Keywords
- Cocoa Ventures
- pre-seed
- seed stage
- Europe
- US
Sponsors
NVP
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Cocoa Ventures
Places: Europe, US
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