Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Generally speaking in venture capital financings the legal documents will specify that only “major investors” (a threshold set in the agreement – which can be $500,000 investor or more). There are now so many new early stage investors and many of these are new it’s not so obvious whom you can trust.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. According to John Borchers, Co-founder, Decathlon is the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Another example is Correlation Ventures ($300M+ AUM), a VC firm which co-invests in financings with at least one other new outside VC. Some of the VC fund’s own limited partners will typically invest in a SPV, plus the platform’s members can contribute additional capital. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

I wanted to encourage more of our Limited Partner (LPs, or the people who invest in VC funds) to attend our annual meeting in person. It’s important that we stay current in and debate others on what is actually happening: In late-stage financings, in IPOs, in M&A, in crowd funding, etc.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. This doesn’t concern any specific industry, but that kind of behavioral finance. We do that primarily through leading financings. Today, we are lucky to welcome Dan Kimerling of Deciens Capital. That scares me.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. 3) An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. From a VC’s point of view there are two reasons for board meetings.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

As an investor, it’s not always easy to assess the team at the very early stage, especially if they didn’t come from working in the space before. Regardless of the space, Limited Partners, investors in venture funds, want to know the ESG (environmental, social and governance) impact of their investments.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. 3) An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. From a VC’s point of view there are two reasons for board meetings.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). And trust me, if you’re early stage you DO want to meet Bryce. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs. Meet early. Not so much.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

In my view the terminology being used for early stage investors by the press and the media is not as clear as it should be. I’ve talked about this on several occasions when I’ve been at conference and on panels, but I figured it would make sense to do a post explaining my taxonomy of the early-stage investing world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders. a loan) that is later converted to equity at the time of the next financing. It starts as a debt instrument (e.g.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2013

From my perspective: “… Early stage board of directors should be focused on being an extension of the team, helping the entrepreneurs get out of the gate, and get the business up and running. Often, entrepreneurs don’t build a board until they are forced to by their VCs when they raise their first financing round.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 6, 2012

As most of you probably know, the vast majority of VC firms make investments out of funds structured as limited partnerships with a 10yr life. 1) LP Bases Change Over Time – Most healthy VC firms tend to have stable relationships with the limited partners investing with them. beginning of the investment period).

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ithacaVC

JULY 10, 2013

Here is the good news: if you read my prior posts and Fred’s post, I think you are about 99% of the way there in solving any mystery behind startup valuations for early stage financing rounds (i.e., Series Seed or Series A).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. Competition also has access to capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

million of limited partner commitments--a huge and exciting first step. Two Sigma is a technology and finance company in Soho filled with incredibly bright engineers and developers, so I’m really excited about leveraging that partnership in a number of cool ways.

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Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

They will pool money amongst "friends and family" as well as their own capital to finance new deals. Further, their focus will remain a mix of seed and early stage deals and they will stay in the same location. My partners offered a great opportunity to continue my career in venture on the private side of things.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. From a VCs point of view there are two reasons for board meetings.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In October, we held our annual Limited Partners meeting at NextView. This is happening because many series A investors are not really investing in early stage companies any more. In fact, many of these investors are not just looking for early product/market fit, but for meaningful scale and growth.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Musk was the early winner taking the CEO role (for a brief period) in the merged company and the largest equity stake as well. I was a Limited Partner in Angel Investors II (Ron Conway's angel fund) that was an investor in Confinity. Like CPF, Kilowatt also provides solar financing services to consumers.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2018

The $750 million fund combines all of our prior fund strategies – our early stage, early growth, and partner fund investments – into a single fund. For historical reference, our early-stage funds (FG 2007, FG 2010, FG 2013, and FG 2016) are all $225 million in size.

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K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The birth of modern-day venture capital (not considering the European monarchs financing explorations and projects as venture capital) can be traced back to American Research and Development, which was started by Georges Doriot. As established funds move up the venture spiral, they leave behind a vacuum for true early stage venture capital.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is well capitalized Silicon Valley has traditionally received a disproportionate share of private, early-stage funding compared to other geographies given its density of firms focused on these types of investments and the number of start-ups and private companies in the region. AT&T Pension Fund and the DIRECTV Pension Plan.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

My first reaction is incredulity that limited partners would buy into this idea. Seed stage investing is all about the team, so there may be something to this idea. Labels: entrepreneur , seed investing , venture capital , venture financing. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Steve Bennet.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. On that front, I take pride in the second headline with news that Fliqz , where I am CFO, just closed on $6 million in Series C financing. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I was a limited partner in Angel Investors, LP, Ron Conways fund in the late 1990s. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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