“The original idea of The Refiners was to identify ambitious European startups willing to move to the U.S. In March, Diaz was in the process of raising a second fund for The Refiners but couldn’t close the deal. More recently, he’s been working on The Refiners, a San Francisco-based seed fund that helps international founders get started in Silicon Valley. He’s now working on Willo, a robot that could replace your toothbrush.Ĭarlos Diaz co-founded Carlos Diaz, a European digital agency that was acquired by Atos. The device looks an awful lot like an Amazon Echo Show, but the device was announced a couple of years before Amazon took over this market.
He later launched Ily, a family-friendly communication device. He first founded Producteev, a task-management product that was acquired by software giant Jive in 2012. Ilan Abehassera has been an entrepreneur for a while. We have realized that most of the time, they do not have the opportunity to expand beyond their borders because they don’t have access to the right funding, talent pool, playbooks or network,” the website reads.
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“We are convinced that France is full of talented and ambitious entrepreneurs and is home of some of the best engineers and product designers in the world. The fund’s website lays out this investment thesis in just a few sentences. As the name suggests, Diaspora Ventures wants to invest in the French diaspora, and especially French founders who want to create a startup in the U.S. for more than a decade - Ilan Abehassera (pictured above, right) and Carlos Diaz (pictured above, left). founded by two partners who grew up in France but have been in the U.S. Meet Diaspora Ventures, a new VC fund based in the U.S.
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