Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 12, 2014
They often create the biggest tensions between investors who are investing at different stages in the business. These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. I have seen bad behavior from later-stage VCs, believe me.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 24, 2017
From those founders, we are aware that FC takes their mission “to be the most aligned fund to founders at the seed stage” very seriously. We know many firms that build portfolios with great logos by buying into companies at later stages and higher valuations. But they didn’t take advantage of that demand.
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View from Seed
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore. Case in point, according to CrunchBase, NextView has made only two new seed investments this year in 2018 … the actual number is: eleven. With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.),
thebarefootvc
JANUARY 27, 2014
I think that later stage valuations are frothy (for reasons I explain below) while earlier stage valuations are starting to stabilize from previous highs (with the exception of the superstar serial entrepreneur) - turns out scaling in a sea of competition (both startup and entrenched) is not so easy. Or so it seems.
K9 Ventures
OCTOBER 10, 2017
A Seed round today — like the Series A round of yesteryear — requires some kind of traction or product. In contrast, you *don’t* need much to qualify as a Pre-Seed stage company. Pre-Seed investors should *not* be looking for any kind of traction. Q: Is Pre-Seed investing more risky than Seed stage investing?
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2011
The awareness phase is where other later-stage investors start to notice the momentum, bringing additional money in and pushing prices higher. Meanwhile, the bubble for “seed stage&# startups began when Ron Conway’s Silicon Valley Angels and DST guaranteed every startup out of a YCombinator $150,000.
Hunter Walker
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates. 2) The Bundled Expertise Syndicate.
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