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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

And since we will continue to look proactively at new seed-stage tech startups over the next few years, the question becomes: What, then, will these companies look like? We’ve been remarkably consistent on this dimension as well: five of the recent 13 investments were B2C, five were B2B, and three you could categorize as B2B2C.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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Active Capital Raises Second Fund Worth $25 Million

SiliconHills

Both funds are focused on providing seed-stage capital to business to business software as a service companies, known as B2B SaaS companies located outside of Silicon Valley, […]. A year ago, the San Antonio-based venture capital firm raised a $21.5 million fund.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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The $100M+ Club: A New Universe of Buyers ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

On the B2B SaaS side or enabling services (e.g. Included are some of the large companies above like Google and Microsoft but also active on the B2B/enabling side have been acquirers like Salesforce.com (Radian6, Heroku notably) and Apple (Quattro Wireless, Siri). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

9 that are B2B. The others are mainly in Silicon Valley with some exceptions. We are increasingly finding that excellent founders are creating remarkable businesses everywhere, and we are first and foremost a stage and sector focused fund. We are split pretty much down the middle on consumer vs. enterprise.

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Opportunistic & Thematic Investing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

At NextView we’ve intentionally taken an approach which combines both thematic and opportunistic investing for a couple reasons: 1) Our Overall Strategy is Highly Focused - We’re a dedicated seed VC fund, so we invest in startups exclusively at the seed stage. Pingback: watch toy story 3 free online. Read More ».