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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

A fund size of $100 million – $200 million is likely to either be an A round investor or “stage agnostic&#. A round investor implies they are the “first institutional money in the deal.&# GRP Partners is stage agnostic. Why does vintage matter to you? And know that raising new VC funds right now is incredibly hard.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003. quite encouraging.

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New Survey from Fenwick & West Looks at Angel Funding Landscape

ReadWriteStart

Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to "the burst of the 'dot-come bubble' and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with objective information about the status of the venture environment." The median amount raised in preferred stock financings was $1.1