Timestamps

00:30 Intro and how it all started

07:05 Gerri's biggest miss (and what it taught him)

11:25 What made Bolt & Veriff stand out at the time

16:00 Two things that matter most for investment decisions

17:15 The best advice Gerri received when starting angel investing

19:10 Who really is in the driving seat

21:55 How to get into angel investing (without dropping your full time gig)

24:07 The bottom line

About Gerri Kodres

- Founding Partner at Specialist VC, a €50m fund that's backed over 45 teams and is an early investor in Bolt, Veriff, Monese, CoModule, Starship, NFTPort, etc.

- One of the most prominent VCs in the region, voted #1 startup investor in Jan 2020 by Estonian tech founders

- 15+ year experience in strategy and general management of early & growth stage tech teams

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerrikodres/

About BADideas.fund:

BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €1M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 150+ members from 16 countries and counting.

Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).