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How Venture Capital Decision Making Has Changed During the Pandemic

View from Seed

As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. billion across 2,288 deals in Q3, with deal count exceeding Q2’s at nearly every stage. . At NextView, we’ve experienced this changing environment first hand.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

The screens were coming together and the color scheme I was using (using the primary African colors of Yellow, Green, and Red) was not bad. So I have embraced it fully, and though we are still in the early stages (seed stage), it’s the hardest thing I have ever done yet it’s the most fulfilling thing to me.

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Understanding Different Types of Angel Investors

View from Seed

We at NextView Ventures invest exclusively in a startup’s seed-stage round , meaning that many if not most of our deals are made alongside individual angel investors. At the end of the day, all money is green. These angels, however, come in many different shapes and sizes.

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A Choir of Angel Investors Sing Different Parts

Genuine VC

We at NextView Ventures often invest in a startup’s first round alongside other funds; either seed stage focused ones like ourselves or larger traditional firms. At the end of the day, all money is green. Just as often, however, we’re investing alongside individual angel investors who are participating in the round as well.

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JFDI.Asia Accelerator: Bootcamp Practicalities

YoungUpstarts

We spend tremendous energy recruiting between 100 and 200 angels and seed-stage investors who may invest in your business. We use a red/green chart to measure startup readiness for Demo Day. Your job is to turn your column as green as possible before Demo Day – and beyond. They have first priority. TRACTION and GROWTH?

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A Choir of Angel Investors Sing Different Parts

Genuine VC

We at NextView Ventures often invest in a startup’s first round alongside other funds; either seed stage focused ones like ourselves or larger traditional firms. At the end of the day, all money is green. Just as often, however, we’re investing alongside individual angel investors who are participating in the round as well.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups.