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Vibe Capital is a new venture firm built for scrappy international founders



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Entrepreneur Ankur Nagpal spent seven years building up Teachable, a marketplace for teachers to make their online courses into full-fledged businesses. He raised only $12.5 million in funding before selling to Hotmart, a deal reportedly worth a quarter-of-a-billion dollars. Now, Nagpal wants to use his experience as a founder to help other founders scale their businesses.
Amid a proliferation of emerging fund managers, Nagpal’s “big pitch” is that founders want to take advice from people who feel like peers, are on their level and work at their speed. In other words, entrepreneurs want investments from people who have good vibes.
This ethos in mind, Nagpal announced today the official launch of Vibe Capital, a $60 million fund to back pre-seed and seed startup founders working across all sectors, but especially those working on physical and m …

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