Version One Ventures

APRIL 30, 2013

Despite the recent media buzz surrounding the hardware revolution and emerging maker space, the overwhelming majority of hardware startups have a hard time attracting financing today. Hardware requires time, money, and inventory. Here’s the advice I give these teams who are navigating the tough world of hardware financing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2013

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 Seeded companies will take longer to raise a next round. This is nothing new.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

On November 28, 2012. Add to this regular angels becoming “super angels” — a much-mocked phrase for when someone goes from investing their own money to investing institutional funds. Essentially they became micro-VCs, still investing at the seed level but with much greater resources behind them. PandoDigest.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Your Money. Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Googles Money. 6, 2012, 1:09 AM. |. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example. JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 28, 2013

Seed financing grew from 89 fundings in Q1 2009 to more than 500 in Q3 2012. That means there are a lot more seeded startups out there: an excess demand for a limited supply of Series A financings. Traditionally, I’ve advised startups to raise enough money to sustain them for 18 months.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 20, 2015

There were a number of interesting articles published over the last week in response to Mattermark and CB Insight’s data around early stage financing activity. As a team, we’ve been thinking about what has been going on in the seed market in recent years. There is plenty of appetite for good seed-stage investment opportunities.

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