[Investor Journey] Jason Ball (GR Capital) on growth stage investing, LP relationships and the opportunity in Eastern Europe

Patrick sat down with Jason Ball, Partner at Pan-European growth stage fund GR Capital.
Jason make a compelling case for later stage investing in Europe and companies with an Eastern European market expansion focus in particular.
At GR, he and his colleagues have backed leading scale-ups such as Glovo, Lime, Sennder, Deliveroo and Flaschenpost (recently exited to Dr. Oetker). For Glovo in particular GR was instrumental in accompanying the founders on their Eastern European expansion. Jason provides several wise lessons on his way into VC, how to identify top performing teams and elaborates on the methodology of successful later stage investing. He also shares important learnings for emerging managers on how to foster LP relationships, a crucial component for any VC.

On this episode you will learn about: 

• Jason’s path breaking into VC and his tours of duty at 2 European startups during the DotCom Bubble his time at Qualcomm Ventures, London Seed Capital and finally GR
• The importance of operating experience for investors 
• The 3Ps of investing as well as the 4Ps of later stage investing 
• Tactics for successful LP relationship and fundraising

Make sure to check out GR Capital's website and you can follow Jason Ball on LinkedIn here or on Twitter here.

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