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General Catalyst Drops Insights for VR Founders + VC Investors

Published 5 months ago • 1 min read

Niko @ General Catalyst!

A (virtual) reality check for founders and VC's from Niko

It's my honor to invite you to RSVP now to one of the most fun AR/VR conversations of the year. We've arranged Niko, Managing Director of General Catalyst to share his investing perspective on frontier tech, AR/VR, startup metrics, and more.

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General Catalyst

Niko Bonatsos and General Catalyst has funded startups like Stripe, Warby Parker, Canva, Hubspot, Snap and Discord. They're top tier globally.

Niko's Track Record

Niko was highly involved in helping fund Discord and Snapchat.

Emcee & Host

Don raised $10M over the decade for his VR startups, and worked for Meta.

Don't miss out on a chance to chat with Niko and Don!

RSVP today for our September 4th conversation at 2:30 PM ET on Zoom.

So that you don't need to deal with calendar hassle, I've set up the RSVP so you just register on Calendly and it'll add the Zoom link to your calendar.

See you there! Niko and I look forward to it!

~Don Stein

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