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Yacine Ghalim

Soulful Aggregators

Soulful Aggregators are trusted marketplaces/retailers that build and engage communities around an area of passion

4 min readJun 14, 2019

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Soulful Aggregators

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Why we’d like to back more companies aimed at the “bottom 90%” of consumers

I’m incredibly excited by companies democratizing access to a category of goods of services, either by offering a much cheaper…

5 min readFeb 6, 2019

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Why we’d like to back more companies aimed at the “bottom 90%” of consumers

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Welcome to The Family

Hungry, Hungry Investors: Food Startups Wanted

The food industry is changing, with a lot of room for ambitious founders and hard-driving startups.

9 min readNov 21, 2018

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Hungry, Hungry Investors: Food Startups Wanted

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Yacine Ghalim

Our framework to assess consumer-facing products and services

Over the past 12 years our focus as a firm gradually gravitated towards Consumers. Most of our recent investments have been in what we…

7 min readNov 9, 2018

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Our framework to assess consumer-facing products and services

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What we currently find interesting in consumer Food

Two months ago we announced that we had led Taster’s series A, our first investment in Food. I explained why we believe that Taster has a…

9 min readSep 17, 2018

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What we currently find interesting in consumer Food

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Stories from Sunstone

Why we invested in Taster, the company radically redefining the concept of a restaurant

Yesterday Taster announced their $4m series A. We led their funding round, with participation of existing investors LocalGlobe and Marc…

5 min readJun 28, 2018

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Why we invested in Taster, the company radically redefining the concept of a restaurant

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A look back at my first Vipassana retreat

In April 2017, I completed my first Vipassana retreat. I spent 10 days in a meditation center in Tuscany, cut-off from the outside world…

7 min readJan 10, 2018

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A look back at my first Vipassana retreat

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Why we invested in Inboard Technology, the company reinventing short-range urban mobility

Today Inboard Technology announced that they raised an $8m series A led by Upfront Ventures and with participation of Sunstone. The company…

4 min readNov 16, 2017

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Why we invested in Inboard Technology, the company reinventing short-range urban mobility

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A primer on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning + Sunstone’s investment thesis

Over the past couple of years, we found ourselves investing in 7 AI and ML enabled companies, in areas as diverse as marketing, credit…

2 min readMar 31, 2017

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Why we invested in Mojiworks, the first company building games only for messaging platforms

Five years after selling Wonderland (the company behind GodFinger) to Zynga, Matthew Wiggins and Al Harding announced the launch of their…

5 min readDec 21, 2016

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Why we invested in Mojiworks, the first company building games only for messaging platforms

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Yacine Ghalim

Yacine Ghalim

Partner at Heartcore Capital. Europe’s consumer-only VC firm. Hero founders + large existing markets + obsessive consumer centricity. Into food and mobility.

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