<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/russ-wilcox-2005/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russ Wilcox</a>, Partner at <a href="https://www.pillar.vc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PillarVC</a> talks about his experience running startups himself. Throughout his career he raised 10 times and 3 times these were down-rounds. In this episode Russ explains what down-rounds are bad, how they happened to him and how he managed to survive and thrive!
Russ&#8217; LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/russ-wilcox-2005/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/in/russ-wilcox-2005/</a>
Pillar VC&#8217;s website: <a href="https://www.pillar.vc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.pillar.vc/</a>
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Some topics we have covered in this episode:
&#8211; your fund invests in three fields, which one of those do you specialize in? 
&#8211; you&#8217;ve raised 10 rounds of funding and 3 of those were down-rounds with an eventual happy ending, can you tell us a bit more about that experience? 
&#8211; the unique trait of your fund is that most of your managers have experience building their own companies, how transferrable is that experience? 
&#8211; you&#8217;re an investor who likes patents, why is that and when o you think it makes sense to patent an idea/technology? 
&#8211; you&#8217;ve recently closed your own raise for your 3rd fund &#8211; how did that go? How does that experience compare to fundraising for your own company? 
&#8211; are there any deep tech investments that you&#8217;ve recently made that excite you the most?

Konstantin Dubovitskiy

What is a down-round and how to survive one? By Russ Wilcox

Russ Wilcox, Partner at PillarVC talks about his experience running startups himself. Throughout his career he raised 10 times and 3 times these were down-rounds. In this episode Russ explains what down-rounds are bad, how they happened to him and how he managed to survive and thrive! Russ&#8217; LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russ-wilcox-2005/ Pillar VC&#8217;s website: https://www.pillar.vc/ For [&hellip;]