#135 Gil Dibner and David Peterson, Angular Ventures

Today we are happy to welcome David Peterson and Gil Dibner, from Angular Ventures.

Gil is the General Partner and Founder of Angular. He has been an active venture investor focused on enterprise technology companies born in Europe and Israel since 2005. As a venture investor and angel, he has backed over 30 companies. Prior to founding Angular, Gil was a Partner at DFJ Esprit and a Principal at Index Ventures in London, where he helped manage their pan-European seed portfolio.

David is a partner who, prior to joining Angular, was employee #16 at Airtable, where he led growth and partnerships, developing full-stack GTM strategies and scaling the company to over 500 employees, grew from zero to 200,000 customers, and reached a $5.77B valuation.

In this episode you’ll learn:

– The founding story of Angular Ventures and how Gil & David think about complementarity in their partnership

– How Gil & David think about navigating the current market climate & why they leaned into their biggest bet ever this July

– Why Gil advises that alignment is kept front and center for emerging managers raising their fund