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?” They are comfortable with others taking the lead. . Hence, if Sequoia is the lead and the valuation is reasonable, it’s near 100% chance.
David Teten
JANUARY 23, 2021
Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . Conduct an honest self-evaluation: can you realistically raise money from institutional investors, or should you focus on high net worths/family offices? Lastly, gather feedback.
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Up and Running
MARCH 21, 2016
Particularly if you are a first-time entrepreneur, it will be much easier to get investments on good terms (particularly from non-institutional investors) if you have some traction first,” he explains. Investors want proof that your idea is going to work, and nothing proves this better than having real, paying customers.
View from Seed
MAY 29, 2019
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. This post will try to describe why this is happening and what repercussions are for founders and investors. Is This is Good or Bad for Founders?
David Teten
MARCH 5, 2021
(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.
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