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). The rest, as they say, is history. It was a $4.7M Author howerl.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Addressing both of those issues can stem from the motivations as to why someone would want to put their hard-earned cash into a risky early-stage startup in the first place. PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

Angel Investor 128

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 128

View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

To ensure you receive the rest, subscribe here. It’s become increasingly common for startups to raise several seed rounds, and this has led to a bifurcation in the seed stage between what are known as “pre-seed” (or “genesis”) and institutional seed rounds.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Early Stage Cofounder Finance 120

Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2015

Except for our late stage fund, each of our funds has 30 investments (+/- 2) in it. Each is roughly invested 1/3rd into companies in Colorado, 1/3rd into companies in the bay area, and 1/3rd into companies in the rest of the US (Boston, NY, Seattle, LA, Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Each is $225 million.

Minneapolis 70

Minneapolis Phoenix Portland Syndicate 70

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Find out what the buzz is all about and make valuable connections with local investors who you can syndicate deals with. Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas since 2013. Grab your seat now and get an early-bird discount until March 31. Who should come on the bus? and around the world.

Texas 50

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 50

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

So if a VC wants to work with really talented early-stage entrepreneurs there are times where they have to be willing to seed fund them in order to be in the deal. A very well known early stage fund used to have a rule that they didn’t do follow ons. Bandwidth and hosting charges were expensive.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2012

Our strategy is “early stage” – so we are comfortable with seed investments, first round investments, and what might in the past have been called Series B investments if the company hasn’t raised much money to date (less than $3m). This translates into about a dozen new investments a year plus or minus a few.

Seed Stage 138

Seed Stage LP Warrant Syndicate 138

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas. Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund visited Texas in 2018 when their seventh bus tour made a stop in Dallas. Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. all Bay Area firms?—?

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account. The best way to describe my work is probably start-up CFO guy.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Mechanics Angel investors often syndicate deals, which means they join togetherto invest on the same terms. In a syndicate there is usually a"lead" investor who negotiates the terms with the startup. Dont feel like you have to join a syndicate, though. This isyet another problem that gets solved for you by syndicates.

Angel Investor 63

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Dilution 63

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does.

Viral 307

Viral Las Vegas Tunisia Syndicate 307

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Cendana founder Michael Kim was amongst the earliest and certainly the most focused LP to spot the changes in venture capital leading to seed stage funds and has backed many of the best in the industry so it’s always a pleasure to come and share thoughts with all of these great peers. Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster.

IPO 150

IPO Venture Capital LP SEC 150

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after the rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line. -->. Global Syndication Partners. Top Stories Today. Like Tweet. ABCNews CNN Metro Yahoo.

Naming 84

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84