View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. Of the NextView-backed founders have have tried to raise this round, over 70% have done so (compared to a mean success rate in the industry of around 27%, according to some sources ).

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” Although EquityZen is primarily an online marketplace for secondary shares in private companies, they also offer syndicated primary investments.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over the course of Foundry, we deliberately structured our work in a way that reflected this goal, keeping our organization small and each of the Foundry partners closer to the portfolio (both the companies each of us was responsible for, but also across the portfolio more broadly).

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 10, 2014

But he’s raised the largest syndicate on AngelList , turning himself effectively into a one-man fund for, if not the masses, at least the 270 people who have already committed nearly $3.4m AngelList syndicate has surprised some people, you’ve been angel investing for quite a while, right? He tweets infrequently.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

We market to four populations: High-potential founders. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co. Kevin has written over 620 syndicated columns).

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 9% (1 / 12). Source: Knowledge.VC , based on scraping firm websites

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 19, 2020

Software has been eating venture funds by simplifying syndicates, managing SPVs, and even traditional fund management. What rolling funds do not address is traditional portfolio construction that requires a thoughtful capital deployment strategy. How much capital are you reserving for follow on financings?”

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Agile VC

JULY 16, 2014

One of our portfolio companies, Plastiq , announced yesterday that they raised a $10M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and are planning to move their headquarters from Boston to San Francisco. And talent flows in many directions (all three co-founders of NextView are all Silicon Valley transplants to Boston).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

But they are also a tax on your time with portfolio companies, looking for new investments, running your shop and honestly they are a tax on your family life. Co-founder discontent. What would this founder do if he got an offer to be acquihired quickly by Facebook? They worry too much about missing out on a deal.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 9, 2012

A year ago, I wrote a post detailing some tidbits about our portfolio. I believe that the best way to understand an investor is to meet the founders that they work with. Second best is to understand their portfolio. So here is an unscientific cut of our portfolio and some commentary below. Introduced by co-investor: 3.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In our prior lives, the Bolster founders worked together to scale up a business called Return Path and also. worked as advisors and mentors to numerous early stage founders and startups. The roots of Bolster Prime and Bolster Ventures pre-date the founding of Bolster. What about the middle?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

If the deal is from out of your geography and/or out of your focus area or a deal is being referred by a well-know investor who normally co-invests with similar syndicates – at least ask yourself, “Why am I so lucky to be getting this call.” I’m certain we’ll talk about it soon enough.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

When John Brockman ,founder of Edge , interviewed NathanMyhrvold his first question was “ What’s a CTO ”,to which Nathan replied: “Hell if I know. In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires. I am posting it here as it might be of generalinterest.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

It’s a common question that every VC fields from founders — and founders field from other founders, and marketers field from founders, and PR people field from founders. In light of that partnership, founders should be proactive about asking them to delay — if that’s your desire.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

As a founder, you and your team are building value every day, but there are certain step-function moments where the value creation significantly increases. Regardless of check size, the reality is that the earlier a company is in its lifecycle, the more time we tend to spend with founders. We tend to agree here.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a founder, it feels like a long time, but it’s really a blip on the radar in the scheme of things. This is why I’ve made a habit of profiling our portfolio quantitatively and why we write summaries announcing pretty much all of our new investments. So, here is our annual quantitative summary of our portfolio.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

And that product is a highly engaged seed-stage investment where we are usually the lead or co-lead in a round and will often take a board seat. I’d also question a founder who asks his or her investors to comment falsely on something — that puts the investor in an awkward spot.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. The Innovation Center at Houston’s TMC (TMCx), co-located with Johnson and Johnson’s J-Labs, and the Center for Medical Device Innovation, drive medical innovation. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

We try hard to bring our own blank canvas into these meetings so that we can better conceive and appreciate the vision of founders we meet with. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. But it’s something we strive to do and I believe serves us well. Author howerl. Read More ».

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Startups in NextView’s portfolio frequently receive inbound interest from other VC investors who are intrigued about what they’re doing, and I often talk with other early-stage entrepreneurs how to approach similar situations. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Second, more damning is the “signaling problem.&# This means that if a VC invests in your seed round and does not participate in a future round the next round investor will think to himself, “well, if Big VC Co. You were a VP at a company that sold for $200 million making the founder very wealthy. is now a VC. Seeds deals.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

And we invest in US-based startups, primarily on the US east coast though we’ll consider other parts of country on a selective basis (roughly 15-20% of our portfolio is in the SF Bay area). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Pingback: watch toy story 3 free online. Pingback: [link].

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View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

Historically, seed rounds were syndicated among several different firms. These funds would regularly share deal flow with one another and could share the work in supporting founders and helping to push the company forward. Today, we are seeing less syndication of seed rounds and sharper elbows among many of the funds in the market.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 10, 2010

We price our seed rounds as equity investments, always lead or co-lead … and treat them the same way we would a $10m investment… when we make a seed investment, it gets everyone’s attention. To be clear, while there is a small group of us that are Trada founders, the idea of Trada is completely Niel’s.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 28, 2016

As a founder, you and your team are building value every day, but there are certain step-function moments where the value creation significantly increases. Regardless of check size, the reality is that the earlier a company is in its lifecycle, the more time we tend to spend with founders. We tend to agree here.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Active angels invest in a diversified portfolio of 10 or more companies, usually spreading their investments over a few years. In the end, such a portfolio might yield the angel investor a total return on investment of 25% per year or more. A local network of angels is critical to achieving a diversified portfolio.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2016

After two years of a dedicated experiment, we’ve decided to stop making new investments via our FG Angels Syndicate. The Monday after AngelList announced their Syndicate product in September 2013 we decided to to jump in with both feet and start FG Angels. Average syndicate investment amount per deal: $316k.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 22, 2018

Some of the best later-stage investors walk founders through an institutionalized “reverse” pitch. At Version One, we effectively act as a hotline: we strive to be the first investor that our founders call and often times, it is because we are the most responsive. What are the experiences of other founders in the investor’s portfolio?

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