Finance San Francisco Seed Stage Startup 
Diego Basch
MARCH 14, 2013
While that may be true, I invest in startups because I need to feel useful. I invest in some startups because I genuinely enjoy it. I invest in some startups because I genuinely enjoy it. I don’t plan to allocate more than 5% of my portfolio to startups. I would not want to be in that position.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 24, 2017
Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective. It starts with the people.
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YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 6, 2014
Once I had a few under my belt, I realized I was a start-up junkie, and founded Five Mill Ventures in San Francisco before I was 30. A great example of the Five Mill strategy at work can be seen in one of our most recent startups, a sock company called Argoz. It’s fun, because we spend very little, and make a lot.
K9 Ventures
JUNE 5, 2015
Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. Seed stage was super tough.
Haystack
APRIL 10, 2018
Earlier today, the folks from Afore Capital hosted their inaugural “Pre-Seed Summit” in San Francisco. About 150 people showed up, a healthy mix of founders, seed-stage investors and big fund VCs, and a bunch of LPs of various sizes. 4/ LPs noted that the term “pre-seed” is really a U.S.
Hunter Walker
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
At the seed stage, no matter how much you know about an industry or a founder, you’re still taking a real bet. On top of all this, I was settling into San Francisco. The other thing that can be a bit of a surprise is that venture capital can be pretty lonely, especially compared to working at a startup or company.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 26, 2022
We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. And the number one destination outside of LA is San Francisco.
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