Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The seeds planted by those who came in the 90′s have begun to blossom 15 years later literally into seed capital, blossoming new entrepreneurs and an ecosystem of experienced operators that powered LA 1.0 Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars. Success begets success. and are guiding LA 2.0.

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

Third, the total number of Series Bs is remaining relatively constant, even for the newer cohorts, like the 2012 class. Across all these cohorts, the mean success rate to raise an A after a Seed is 27%, to raise a B after an A is 35%, and the whole way through the funnel, Seed to B, is 11.5%.

Seed Stage 169

Seed Stage Seed Capital Startup Green 169

Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

1/ A Pre-Seed Reminder: According to Crunchbase, PlanGrid was founded and went through Y Combinator in 2012. The company only raised a bit over $1M as seed capital. AutoDesk Acquires PlanGrid For $875M. co-founder Sam Bhagwat — was perfectly suited for the iPad in a rugged work environment.

Acquisition 62

Acquisition Artificial Inteligence Balance Sheet Cofounder 62

VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

A Wall Street Journal piece from April 2012 reports on the impact of $16 million in venture capital awarded to Coursera to increase the scope of the program. An SFGate article reports that the venture has raised more than $90 million in seed capital, as of April 2012.

Venture Capital 96

Venture Capital Michigan Seed Capital Programming 96

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. My good friend Adam Lilling and I started Launchpad more than 5 years ago . We had a specific goal in mind.

Early Stage 290

Early Stage Venture Capital Los Angeles Coder 290

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

Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Structuring this kind of seed investment as a loan only makes sense because, as it turns out, a convertible note is a convenient “hack” to make it quicker, easier and cheaper to inject seed capital into an early stage startup while giving investors some protection (debt is ahead of equity in line in the event the company is liquidated).

Finance 134

Finance Convertible Security Equity Seed Stage 134