VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates - enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). How AngelList Syndicates (and FG Angels) Works. We were the first formal venture fund to do this.

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Syndicate Syndication Technical Review Due Diligence 93

VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates – enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). How AngelList Syndicates (and FG Angels) Works. We were the first formal venture fund to do this.

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Syndicate Syndication Technical Review Due Diligence 48

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Non-institutional Leads. I’ve seen a few cases now where a number of very high-quality institutional investors were interested in investing in a company at valuation, but a non-institutional investor was willing to set terms 1.5 – 2X higher than that valuation. Alternative funding sources.

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Cram Down Institutional Investors Dilution Seed Stage 66

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

But we behave pretty much exactly the same way in those companies as we do when we are the lead and only institutional investor. Post Revenue: 6 1/2 (the 1/2 is for a company that had revenue, but did a major product pivot as part of the financing). Syndicate Composition: NextView + Seed Funds + Angels: 9. Consumer: 9.

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Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Beacon technology system , which automatically outbound-solicits a universe of over 10,000 institutional investors, without requiring LPs to register for an online network of funds. .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

My key takeaways from talking to roughly 40 institutional investors in the valley about investing to an European startup are: Traction cures all ills. Jeff Clavier, Seed stage investor in 90+ consumer internet startups, said: We all have a different approach to non Silicon Valley opportunities. They take international Founders.

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Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

TL;DR: In a market that has historically idolized huge, splashy financings and exits, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are realizing that everyone else’s definition of success — particularly among certain large VCs — isn’t necessarily aligned with their own. If I put in $2MM and get out $10MM in a $50MM exit, that’s a solid 5x return.

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Liquidation Preference Common Stock Valuation Silicon Valley 48