Meet the guest: Andreas Strasser, Partner at KOMPAS VC

Andreas is a Partner at Kompas VC, responsible for investments in eastern and southern Europe, as well as the German speaking region. Before joining Kompas VC, he was the Managing Director of an Energy- and Smart-City venture fund in Austria, and the Investment Director for Europe and Israel at the Volvo Cars Tech Fund. 

Throughout his career, Andreas has shown his commitment to making the world a better place by supporting innovation that works to reduce the impact our modern lifestyle has on the environment. He is particularly interested in limiting the carbon impact of the built environment and helping people live longer, healthier, and happier lives in their homes. 

Meet your host: Parul Madan, Founder & CEO of DueDash

To interview these amazing investors, we have DueDash founder, serial entrepreneur, and investor Parul Madan. A global entrepreneur turned investor turned entrepreneur again. She combines knowledge, experiences, and successes from the corporate, entrepreneurial, and investor world all into one.

She is a successful entrepreneur who has founded and led many companies to successful exits. As an active early-stage investor, she has invested in 40 start-ups worldwide and is also Managing Director of Quake Europe, where she led the 5G Accelerator Program in partnership with Deutsche Telekom and RTL. Parul established the Founder Institute, a pre-seed accelerator program from Silicon Valley here in the Cologne region in 2017, and in 2020 founded DueDash with a mission to leave no investable start-ups behind.

If you want investments, you need to understand investor relations

Welcome to the DueDash Investor Lounge, your place to learn what investors really want and how to win them for your startup! Fundraising is a challenging activity for most founders. Especially as most founders misunderstand that fundraising is actually a process. So a more adequate term is investor relations. And here the questions only start. What do investors want? How do I excite them about my product company? How do I continuously nurture investor relationships? What makes them say YES! and which red flags do you need to avoid? This and more we will discuss in DueDash's Investor Lounge. Every month, we are inviting high-profile investors and successful startup founders from around the globe to uncover their thoughts, experience, and ideas on startup investments.