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Steven Sarracino

Activant Capital

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I was talking to someone else at this fund at the start of the year. We had several conversations, he had explained his thesis on my space which its embarrassing to say but he gave our pitch better then I did. He told us exactly what he would need to see in order to lead our next round. He checked in several times and even made a bunch of customer intro's and a couple executive candidate intros, one of which we even hired. I was excited to come back to him with an update. Turns out he is no longer with the firm and I got introduced to Steve when an email bounced on his account. I read the reviews on here, and thought they must just be from the small minority....boy was I wrong. First, he canceled our meeting via his admin 10 mins before it was scheduled to start. When we do connect he proceeds to bad mouth this former employee and how the firm is better without him....wow. He seemingly paid little attention to our pitch till our financial slides he gets all hot on our ARR progress and tells us he is interested. We ask how he can help...He offers a bunch of intros to customers (none of which came through). He introduced us to some random consultant on his team who honestly had nothing interesting to say and acted like he was our professor giving us homework for the next meeting. I email Steve back, nothing for a week. Then he passes me off to an associate who asks for all the same info we already provided. Don't bother with these guys...everything on here is true.
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