Early Stage Programming Seed Stage Syndication 
View from Seed
JANUARY 13, 2021
It turns out capital is not a weapon, especially in the early stages of building a business, and even experienced founders who can raise huge sums often realize this and right-size their asks. We help surface seed companies to them and typically don’t compete against them for new rounds or for follow-on dollars.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2015
I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. A seed-stage “super angel.”
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View from Seed
JUNE 10, 2020
Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program. When the point of the program is a Demo Day show at the end, all of the participating companies need to be in lock-step. all designed to scale, it requires a logistical effort with a rigid timeline.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). then we integrate loyalty programs, CRM, etc., link] dazhi chen.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 21, 2014
As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 20, 2017
A key ingredient of Techstars accelerator programs is our experienced and engaged mentor community. Our first two pilot funds will be the 2017 city programs in Austin and Boston, launching on January 23rd. At Foundry Group, we learned a lot by running our own FG Angels syndicate.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 8, 2012
Yesterday I sent emails out passing on participating in two seed rounds for companies I really like. They had lots of investors trying to invest and each company was competitive with two other seed stage companies we’ve seen in the past 30 days. This translates into about a dozen new investments a year plus or minus a few.
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