PMF Café by Jess & Luka

Jason T. Ray is the founder and CEO of Paperless Parts. Paperless Parts is a SaaS company for manufacturing companies. Jason is an incredible founder with an depth knowledge on company building. This was one of the most educational chats I had!Key Takeaways:Jason: PMF is not finite “the wave is just starting, it’s very easy to get crushed by a wave” once you achieve it, you h

We interviewed Ted Julian the founder of Resilient, a cyber security company that was acquired by IBM. We spoke about Resilient's path from 0 to the acquisition, what PMF means in an enterprise, and cyber security world, and what key facets are relevant when scaling PMF. Today, Ted Julian is a Venture Partner at Glasswing Ventures, an angel investor, as well as the CEO and founder

Jag is one of Europe's most active angel investors, making 20+ investments per year. Jag has invested in over 200 companies (personally and as a GP) for 10-12 years. Jag is also the author of Amazon best seller "Message Machines" (link below)Key takeaways from our chat:There is no definition of PMF. It’s different for all companies.Companies fail because they scale prematurely. I

NorthOne is a US challenger bank, that banks over 250,000 small businesses and has raised over $90M in capital. We sat down with Eytan Bensoussan, CEO and Founder.Key take aways:Relentless, customer obsession through PMFBuilding an audience offline and online, pre launch helped them grow rapidly“PMF is not found, it’s built”The biggest takeaway for us, was really the customer

Jens Lapinski is General Partner and Founder of Angel Invest, one of Europe's most active pre seed and seed stage funds. Angel Invest invests in 50 companies pre seed and seed companies per year.Jens is also a former founder and operator turned VC, who has seen 100+ companies go through product market fit iterations. Jens is also an investor in Index Health (Luka's company) so I've

We sat down with Michal Rokosz, founder and General Partner of Inovo Ventures, a $100M fund focused on Central Eastern European founders and companies that are global. Inovo has raised 3 funds, totaling $162 million making it one of CEE largest VC funds. Inovo is based in Poland.Michal, who was a previous operator and now turned VC discussed his experiences with his own companies,

Recording #2 with Niklas Jansen, Founder of Blinkist who's USP is "Understand books & podcasts in 15 minutes." Today, Niklas is a General Partner at Interface Capital, an early stage venture capital fund.We discussed:How it took the founding team of Blinkist 2-3 years to find PMFWhy starting first without tech is importantWhy monetization is key from day 1Articles and books ref

Today, we'll discuss how Penta Bank (www.getpenta.com) found PMF. Penta has raised over $80M in capital, acquired over 50K small business customers.This is PMF Cafe first podcast recording by the hosts, Jessica Holzbach of www.pile.capital and Luka Ivicevic of www.indexclinic.com, both founders of Germany's largest bank for small businesses, Penta Bank recently acquired by Qonto.PM