View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At the seed stage and as companies scale, helping the founders I work with identify and reach their goals, personally and professionally, gives me energy and purpose. And I’ve been fortunate enough to witness their startups scale from ideas to $1B+ businesses (and even an IPO in the case of Poshmark).

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 26, 2021

From the start, we have limited ourselves primarily to startups within North America, with a handful of exceptions: Nexus Mutual and Drover (UK), Guesser.com (Spain), and Headout (India). We still look for pre-seed & seed stage opportunities, as we believe this is the stage where we can add the most value.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

If Reid were to start a company today he’d probably have every VC in America offering to back him, but this wasn’t necessarily the case when we started LinkedIn out of his apartment in Mountain View at the end of 2002. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. quite encouraging.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre [Silicon Valley] –> Itself an outgrowth of the venture investing arm of the original Bank of America (based in SF), Merrill Pickard backed many startups that ultimately went public. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In the past five years, seed-stage investing has experienced a boom. In North America, seed funds now represent 67 percent of all VC funds, up from 33 percent in 2008. Andrej Kiska is an Associate at Credo Ventures.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

But it turns out the majority of the company’s revenue comes from outside the US & Canada … about 54% of revenue in Q1 2011 came from the International segment (non North America). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Pingback: Iphone Android App. Read More ».

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates. 2) The Bundled Expertise Syndicate.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

And arguably one of the most vibrant in North America is in Montreal , Quebec. FounderFuel is backed by the team behind Montreal Startup and Real Ventures (a $50 million seed-stage fund). So it's good news for the entrepreneurial community that there's a new accelerator program in town: FounderFuel.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The 2013 Joah didn’t realize he was about to run into the buzzsaw that was being black while fundraising in 2014 and 2015, two of the best years for a seed-stage startup to raise funds in Silicon Valley. Are founders and investors positioning themselves to be Thanos in The Avengers movie series?

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Angel investors often act differently than VCs, and the fact that VCs abandoned seed-stage investing doesn’t necessarily mean they did so because seed investments are inherently less compelling. (A Let’s take a look at the actual data. . 100,000 invested, would return $250,000).

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

This summer I conducted our third annual survey of the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies recently funded by angel groups in North America. The Halo Report for the rolling median for the 12 months proceeding June 30, 2012 showed that the median pre-money valuation for Seed Stage deals as $2.7 million, up over $2.5

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Code for America Chooses 20 Developer.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2016

At the moment of writing, Seed-DB, a global database of seed stage accelerators, listed 235 programs (both active and defunct) that 5,688 startups had gone through. Some of the programs take equity in exchange for a seed round, some are free for participants, others work anywhere in between those two models.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The numbers tell the inspiring story of entrepreneurial, “can do” America – more than 26,000 companies raising capital from more than 124,000 individual investors. According to the Center for Venture Research , angel funding activity in the 1st 6 months of 2011 totaled $8.9 billion, an increase of 4.7% over the same period in 2010.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage. Your company is an idea that exists in your head and nowhere else unless you’re willing to do anything possible to make it pervade a consciousness beyond your own.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage. Your company is an idea that exists in your head and nowhere else unless you’re willing to do anything possible to make it pervade a consciousness beyond your own.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Angel investors often act differently than VCs, and the fact that VCs abandoned seed-stage investing doesn’t necessarily mean they did so because seed investments are inherently less compelling. (A Let’s take a look at the actual data. . 100,000 invested, would return $250,000).

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

Here is the article from today’s Atlanta Business Chronicle by Urvaksh Karkaria : Atlanta has historically been a business-to-business software town — famous for building the computer programs that keep corporate America humming. Backed by his $5 million Atlanta Ventures fund, Cummings hopes to “de-risk” such investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I still think it’s best to take money from Dave when you’re also partnered with a more focused, hands-on seed-stage VC who brings different things to the table – like more ability to write larger checks in a downturn (for one) or solving a deep crisis that involves super hands-on involvement.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There are millions of small businesses in America, butonly a few thousand are startups. So seed investors usually care lessabout the idea than the people. This is true of all venture funding,but especially so in the seed stage. Like VCs, one of the advantages of seed firms is the advice theyoffer.

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aweissman.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

As I look at seed stage start ups, the international environment is much more relevant now compared to 10 years ago, at least in terms of competitive standing, markets to go after, and centers or pockets of innovation. America has recovered from worse before, and may do so again. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com.

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aweissman.com

MAY 4, 2008

At betaworks were trying to create a different seed stage business model (John wrote about this a little more here ), at least a bit, and though we might be "obscure even among Web insiders," by nature of being located here in New York we tend (and are right now designed) to have more activities here. Today it wouldnt make the top ten.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Later-stage capital of course ultimately matters, but that capital can be “borrowed” from players in other states at the right time (and even countries; capital is global after all). Simply put, later-stage capital travels easier; seed-stage capital providers are homebodies. Federal government The U.S.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 19, 2015

” One of the examples Marks cites is that of the ‘”Nifty Fifty”: the stocks of America’s best, fastest growing companies. And they fail to understand the implications of all this for the route to success.”

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