#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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