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May 2024
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E313 | Super Angel | Angel investing ins...

The European VC
About this episode
Join us as Tom Wilson from Seedcamp and Anthony Danon from Cocoa talk to Leng Lee, angel investor, co-founder & Chief Product Officer at Oui Therapeutics.

Leng was previously the first employee at Codecademy where he was the Head of Product, before joining MongoDB as the Director of Product (Cloud). He later spent a year as a Research Fellow at the Columbia University Centre for Anxiety and Related Disorders, developing a virtual reality product for social anxiety.

Leng is an Expert-in-Residence at Seedcamp, Europe’s leading seed investor. He is an active angel investor through Seedcamp, and the accelerator program Pioneer, and is an advisor to a number of SaaS companies. He is also on the product advisory board for Cambridge University Press.

Go to eu.vc for our core learnings and the full video interview 👀

Chapters:

00:54 Leng's Journey into Angel Investing
01:01 From Academia to Tech: A Career Transition
04:16 Expanding Horizons: MongoDB and Beyond
05:25 Advising Startups and Navigating the Ecosystem
06:22 The Leap into Angel Investing
07:23 Learning from Early Investment Experiences
09:35 Developing an Investment Philosophy
16:11 Evaluating Founders and Startups
17:53 Evaluating Founders: The Art of Storytelling
18:40 The No-Go Zone: Clarity and Engagement in Pitching
19:21 Healthcare Investment Trends and Challenges
22:28 Local vs Global: Angel Investing Perspectives
23:11 The Dual Life: Balancing U.S. and UK Ventures
25:24 Core Learnings from Angel Investing
28:30 Supporting Founders: The Angel Investor's Dilemma
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