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. Finally, we believe strongly in active engagement as a seed investor.

Seed Stage 138

Seed Stage LP Warrant Syndicate 138

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? Of course, over the last decade, the rest of the world doesn’t need to read these blogs to see what’s going on. Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here?

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

I spoke last week at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference. My presentation from the Summit can be downloaded here and the embed is below but the summary message is the rest of this blog post. Note: I would like to thank my colleague Kevin Zhang for his tireless work in tracking downstream financing trends on behalf of Upfront Ventures.

IPO 150

IPO Venture Capital LP SEC 150