Cocoa 🍫

😇 VCs turned angels: angel checks + VC hacks & network + EQ
❤️‍🔥 Backing Killers With A Heart
🤟And helping them hack the system as their in-house VC

[Cocoa 🍫 @cocoadotvc]

We have open-sourced our in-house VC hacks. And we have been joined by many investor friends. Because the more hacks, the better.
https://t.co/tl4PVskYQc
+50 short videos & blogs covering from Series B metrics to a Cap table template. Gifs included.

And this is just the start.

[Cocoa 🍫 @cocoadotvc]

When you wish upon a star 🌠

Let the countdown start!

[Daniel Kuntz @dankuntz]

A message from a distant galaxy 🌟

LILGUY V2 launches in 7 days

https://t.co/Th7H1wFc29

[Cocoa 🍫 @cocoadotvc]

@dankuntz 🌠🌠🌠

[Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK]

Carmen Alfonso Rico, solo GP at @cocoadotvc, on how to break into VC:

"Identify your superpower and build around it... build your own personal monopoly."

"Identify what it is and just go hard on it"

For her it was accepting that her superpower in VC was her EQ. Lots of people have IQ but EQ is rare.

@calfonsorico is one of the GOATS

[Cocoa 🍫 @cocoadotvc]

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[Cocoa 🍫 @cocoadotvc]

We have open-sourced our in-house VC hacks. And we have been joined by many investor friends. Because the more hacks, the better.
https://t.co/tl4PVskYQc
+50 short videos & blogs covering from Series B metrics to a Cap table template. Gifs included.

And this is just the start.

[Cocoa 🍫 @cocoadotvc]

❤️‍🔥To founders: this code is for you — fork it, build on it, use it mischievously, and go hack the system.

🙏To everybody who is taking part on this crazy mission - thank you! Collaboration is our biggest strength.

[Cocoa 🍫 @cocoadotvc]

🌟🎥
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[Jitter @jittervideo]

Big news:

We’ve officially partnered up with our friends at @contra 🤩

If you’re a freelancer using Jitter, you can now get certified as a Jitter Expert on Contra to earn a badge to show off on your profile and stand out from the crowd. ✨

[Carmen 🍫 @calfonsorico]

More emerging managers means more capital for pre-seed and seed-stage founders. So I’m excited to share everything I’ve learned about setting up and running @cocoadotvc.
Think about it as the Emerging Manager Toolkit.
#letsbuildtogether
https://t.co/uAIYYMqTFr

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

🚨 Hey folks I got something to announce:

I am launching a new investment fund brand:

Prototype Capital 🦾
A globally-active first-check investment fund.

We focus on cool stuff that's technical hard to achieve, but also still new enough to be a bit weird – globally.

Think Robotics in Eastern Europe, AI in SF, Software remotely, OpenSource SaaS, Space-tech in India, Reindustrialization of Europe, AI Agents in Brazil, among many others…

- $100k-$200k
- we say we invest early and we actually mean it
- with every 5th investment we are the first to commit
- only 6% of all ivnestments were after seed
- the brand will be a larger umbrella for all kinds of stuff from our own prototypes 😬, to streams, to communities, to investinpublic transparency efforts
- this is legally speaking a rebrand of my previous solo GP fund so we got track record to proof
- we do about 15-20 investments per year

Link in thread! 🔥
Please RT if you got a sec – Appreciate your launch support 🙏❤️

[Carmen 🍫 @calfonsorico]

Sun's out, new's out.
Big privilege to announce that @cocoadotvc has backed @goodwin_ml & Fractile on their mission to build AI hardware for near-instant inference of models

'Radical' investment thesis 👇
#letsdothis

https://t.co/zPyP54btmy

[Carmen 🍫 @calfonsorico]

I love it when somebody calls me ‘lovely animal’ - best definition of Solo GPs I’ve heard so far, by 👑 @axeliaklein.

See more on European Solo GPs (including some secrets)👇.
#letsdothistogether

https://t.co/pOpmTfYAw5

[Carmen 🍫 @calfonsorico]

In SF this week. Reading ⁦@andreasklinger⁩ 👇

Amen to every word.
“Mentality is an outcome of a system. Let’s change the system. Make success more likely and people will believe that they can be successful.”

#letsdothis https://t.co/kP7PwCU524

[EU-Startups @EU_Startups]

🎙️ Don't miss episode 61 of the EU-Startups Podcast with @calfonsorico, Founder and Angel Investor at @cocoadotvc 🍫 where she speaks about the story behind Cocoa, the chocolate-making process, and the concept of in-house VC, and much more 🚀

https://t.co/cWLpm1BL5s

[Carmen 🍫 @calfonsorico]

💥🎤🍫
https://t.co/GkJRVCAkv5 @EU_Startups
Backing founders on their mission is a privilege and at Cocoa 🍫 we need to earn that privilege every day, pre and post-round.

[Cocoa 🍫 @cocoadotvc]

May the Year of the Dragon be a colourful year, filled with joy and prosperity. Happy Chinese New Year from Cocoa! 🍫🐲

[Carmen 🍫 @calfonsorico]

🍁 17th of October (finally autumn!)
🇬🇧 at home (finally!)
🚀 listening to the future at #flight2023 by ⁦⁦@crane_vc⁩

⁦🍫⁦@cocoadotvc⁩

[Cocoa 🍫 @cocoadotvc]

❣️💪💙🍫
Let us always be human.

[Carmen 🍫 @calfonsorico]

Wearing a shirt with embroidered hearts @ProjectAcom to
❤️‍🔥talk @cocoadotvc, Killers with a Heart and Customer Love
❣️treasure that we are human because we feel - love, compassion, empathy & care. It is our humanity that makes us human, let's protect it

@DecodingVC @MallaG

[Carmen 🍫 @calfonsorico]

Thank you @dous_julia for having me to chat everything @cocoadotvc
😇 Angel investing
❤️‍🔥 Killers with a Heart
🐘 Elephants in the room (literally!)
🍫 Chocolate making

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[Cocoa 🍫 @cocoadotvc]

🚀#letsdothis
@VisionariesVC @emblem_vc

[Cocoa 🍫 @cocoadotvc]

pivotal
/ˈpɪvətl/
of crucial importance in relation to the development or success of something else.

Today is a Pivotal day for Cocoa, as we welcome https://t.co/bKbR1nNGxo, on a mission to build a modern procurement software. More on our thesis below 👇

https://t.co/w8E0S4IPAU

[Cocoa 🍫 @cocoadotvc]

🦸🏻‍♀️TEAM is pivotal. Marc-Antoine Lacroix (ex-CPO & CTO at Qonto), @romainlibeau (ex-CMO & COO at @swile), & Estelle Giuly (workflow automation expert) went hard core building from Day 1 and in just a couple of months have got clients like @VoodooPlatform raving about the product