View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. At the end of the process, which ran into the fall of 2003, we received term sheets from two firms and had a third which expressed interest in participating though not leading the round. How To Think About The Future. May 26, 2011. It was a $4.7M

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. If they can’t, then we want to know more about the existing investor syndicate, so we’re not the only ones at the table. In terms of negotiation, there are always hot buttons.

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Term Sheet Equity Startup Seed Stage 120

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”.

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Rob Go

APRIL 19, 2017

Recently, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time with a number of the new early-stage investors in Boston. Just last week, Axios announced that Stephen Marcus is raising a fund called Riot Ventures and Term Sheet announced that Nilanjana Bhowmik from Longworth will be joining Converge. First Star Ventures (FKA Procyon).

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Early Stage Boston Artificial Inteligence Term Sheet 34

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Entrepreneurs can sink a lot of time into fundraising discussions that go nowhere or end with actual term sheets but ones they’re not prepared to accept (firms you don’t want to work with, terms you don’t like, etc). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels. One experienced CFO said: The better ones usually will not give a term sheet unless they really want to do a deal. One of the VC firms says they want to invest and offers the foundersa term sheet.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76