View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the next post, I’ll talk about how we think about pre-seeds at NextView. It’s become increasingly common for startups to raise several seed rounds, and this has led to a bifurcation in the seed stage between what are known as “pre-seed” (or “genesis”) and institutional seed rounds.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. This is just the next phase of AngelList’s evolution into a one-stop shop for seed-stage companies and their backers. Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Was this a lost decade for venture capital?

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them. It’s perhaps an older example, but Bitpipe ( sold to TechTarget in 2004 ) did just that in becoming the largest distributor of IT white-papers which attracted CIO buyers.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. What They Do : Enable users to connect and share content with friends online. Read More ».

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

Hopefully you haven’t heard of them before… Jivy Group - a mini-conglomerate of companies founded in 2004. Technion Seed CEO Moshe Katznelson said, “Incubators are the leaders in seed-stage investment in Israel.&# (via Globes ). Each week I’ll be profiling 2-3 startups that caught my attention.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. → Learn More.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Today, AngelList is debuting Docs, which lets seed-stage startups close their round online. Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. The next step is actually facilitating these deals.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Stewart is the founder of Urgent Group, a venture development firm and the founder and managing director of Geometric Group, LLC and Urgent Ventures, LLC, both focused on seed-stage investments. In 2004, Roo founded we:nited magazine – a youth politics magazine and website.

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