EP 62: Advice on Raising Funding for Ecommerce Startups w/ Igor Shoifot, VC Investor in LeTote, ScentBird and Wanelo

My guest on today's show is Igor Shoifot. Igor is here to talk about his experience as a VC investor and to offer insights about how to entice VC investors like himself to 'fall in love' with your ecommerce startup.

Igor Shoifot is based in Silicon Valley and is an investment partner at TMT Investments who have about 40 companies currently in their portfolio. Independently, Igor is an investor, board member, shareholder in over 50 startups with combined valuation of $1 Billion including 3 ecommerce start ups: LeTote, ScentBird and Wanelo. 

Igor is also the chairman of the largest internet incubator in Ukraine, Happy Farm (40+ startups) and of Tnation.com incubator in Kazakhstan, and writes for San Francisco Examiner. He taught at New York University, UC Berkeley, UCSF, and lectured at Stanford and other schools in several countries. Igor has an MBA from Boston University and a PhD from The Russian Academy of Sciences. 

 

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