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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. . That said, we tend to be very flexible on syndication to bring on great partners, and have collaborated with terrific partners like our most frequent co-investors Founder Collective, Accomplice, LHV, Softech, and others.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. Can you give a brief overview: when you were founded, investors, current status? David Teten: How do startups sign up? Previously posted at Forbes.

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2012 Recap and Final Close at $19M

Version One Ventures

and Canada… with startups in the Bay area, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Portland, Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver. Our original target was $10M, so I’m extremely grateful at the confidence our investors placed in the fund.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. . That said, we tend to be very flexible on syndication to bring on great partners, and have collaborated with terrific partners like our most frequent co-investors Founder Collective, Accomplice, LHV, Softech, and others.

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

9 that are B2B. Geography: 18 of the 23 are in Boston or New York. About 75% of the portfolio companies that are at least 6 months old have successfully raised series A’s from good institutional investors at a nice valuation step-up from our initial investment. We have 9 investments that are consumer.

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Ionic Security Raises $9.4m from Kleiner Perkins, Tech Operators, ff Venture Capital

David Teten

I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures. ff VC became the only and first institutional investor and I joined the company’s board in May. (This is the second ff VC company that KPCB has invested in, after Klout.).

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What Is NextView’s Focus? Another Stroll Through Our Portfolio

Rob Go

But we behave pretty much exactly the same way in those companies as we do when we are the lead and only institutional investor. Geography: 20 / 25 investments are based in the Boston and New York areas. Type of Product and Business: Consumer vs. B2B. We invest in about 10 companies each year. Consumer: 9.