Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In the mid-2000’s, there weren’t a lot of options to do so, as the ecosystem vibe still hadn’t recovered from the dot-com bubble burst. Seed capital is more readily available, including of course through NextView Ventures. Fast-forward to today and the landscape is different.

Boston 100

Boston Cofounder Seed Capital Software Engineering 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Swipely can even append transaction data with relevant information such as menus or store catalogs.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

Still, venture capital used to be much more fond of educational technology and online educational programs. The largest total amount of venture capital released to educational technology companies within one year is $534 million, reached in the year 2000.

Venture Capital 96

Venture Capital Michigan Seed Capital Programming 96

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. These results were obtained after the following rounds of financing of more than 1000 technology companies in the United States. Only 46% of these companies were able to raise enough for the second round of financing.

Venture Capital 77

Venture Capital Cofounder Finance United States 77

Hippoland

DECEMBER 15, 2015

From my purview at 500 Startups in talking with many seed investors – both angels and VCs – this is what I predict will happen in 2016. Note: these are my opinions and not my employer’s): 1) Raising seed capital from VCs who invest in all stages will become challenging. In 2000, we had the dot com bust.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Angel Investor Bootstrapping Startup 48

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

We had to raise some seed capital. But instead we have gone from 200 people to 2000 people in 14 months. Unfortunately, we did not have any resources to do take two so I had to shut down the company, move to Silicon Valley full-time. In seven days, we launched the application.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

This has presented a problem of the decision makers at resorts balking on spending 50K+ on an unproven idea, although we did a beta test around 2000 with 3 mountains that went well. We are raising seed capital, but would like to have a US tech investor. So, do we focus on mountain resorts or retail customers. That’s your call.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44