View from Seed

MAY 19, 2015

To me, the most exciting (and most perilous) times in a company’s lifecycle are the early first stages when it is just getting off the ground. At the seed stage, the founder’s or co-founders’ role in the company is essential and therefore carries a great deal of risk for missteps. A startup is just that – a startup.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. For VCs, I chose to look at all seed stage VC deals (from MoneyTree©) as well as those in five of the most active regions in the country. All Seed-VC. million in seed stage deals in 2010.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

Moreover, startups don’t necessarily face the same issues other business models do – although finances may plague more than less – with trouble-shooting having now entered unchartered territory. A Startup Lab invests guidance, strategy, and takes equity in a carefully selected collection of early and seed stage startups.

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View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

Today we’re thrilled to re-launch our most popular resource ever: board deck templates for seed-stage startups. Said another way, seed-stage companies can be led by a founder; scaling companies require a CEO. At the seed stage, where NextView invests, a highly structured board often isn’t a requirement.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

If you are facing any problem you can always check out this: Business Loan vs. Equity Financing. Stages of Equity-based funding. ? Inception stage. The inception stage is primarily focused on building the prototype or the minimum viable product and validating the business concept. Seed stage.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

As seed has become the mainstream path to early-stage financing, the definition of seed has changed, and if one is to be a credible first institutional seed investor, he or she would need a fund big enough to be competitive and write $1-2M initial checks. This is because the market actually has changed.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As per the chart above, I highly recommend keeping a founder dominated board at the seed stage. Whether the seed investor gets a permanent seat or a temporary seat will largely depend on: The size check they wrote (If it’s a $1.5m —?just having a sparring partner with a vested interest in your success can be useful.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2017

For the last eight quarters, the number of angel and seed stage deals has declined, according to an Eisner Amper VC report. These software programs are more efficient for managing a company’s finances. In today’s investment climate, it’s getting even harder to raise money from investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Super Angels. Business accelerator.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Austin-based Perigon has closed on a $5 million seed stage round of financing led by LiveOak Venture Partners. Josh Rickel, co-founder, said the company plans to use the money to hire key employees and further develop its technology.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Over the past five years, we’ve witnessed an Atomization of the Seed Stage. Early fundraising is no longer a one-and-done fundraise of a single round of Seed capital subsequently followed by a Series A 12–18 months later. Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve. raise $1.8M

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more Public-company tech investors creates competition in late-stage financings and these investors can afford to be less price sensitive if they choose. On the surface the narratives have been.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor. So, let’s say that one founder puts in $100,000 in seed capital, that could be worth 20 percent of a seed stage company’s valuation.

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View from Seed

MAY 21, 2020

In some respects, one of the often non-intuitive privileges of a seed stage fundraising process is that the company is so new. The reality is that when fundraising for a successive financing round along the seed stage continuum , all startups are graded on a curve based on the amount of time and capital which has gone into the company.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 22, 2014

I was excited to recently see YC President Sam Altman evangelize for adding an investor or outside Director to a seed stage startup. With larger seed financings these days, your next investors are expecting more polished companies come A Round.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR).

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SiliconHills

JUNE 6, 2018

Austin-based Unchained Capital, a crypto-finance startup, announced Thursday that it has closed on $2.99 million in a seed stage round of funding. The post Crypto-finance Startup, Unchained Capital, Receives Nearly $3 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So angel and seed stage investors’ returns will be dependent on good times continuing or on the ability of their portfolio companies to get financed. – While many people publicly predict that the future of investing is about seed investing I think this is wrong. This only becomes noticeable in down markets.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

This is a fresh $100M fund with the same high-conviction, hands-on seed strategy that we’ve been pursuing since the start of NextView over 10 years ago. 100M is a meaningful increase from our $50M third fund, though it’s still quite small in the grand scheme of venture, especially amid the recent wave of late stage financings and SPACs.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. Is there a bubble going on in seed investing? A recent study said seed stage valuations have been quite static recently.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. As Rob Go wrote , board decks and board meetings can waste loads of time at the seed stage.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2023

Europe has also lagged behind the US in venture to finance. The Challenge of Talent and Funding FOV Ventures, the first venture capital firm in Europe to invest exclusively in early-stage Metaverse companies, has announced €25 million in funding for early-stage or seed-stage startups.

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View from Seed

JUNE 21, 2019

NextView Ventures has been around now for nearly a decade, having invested in over eighty seed stage companies along the way. So as a result, collectively we’ve been intimately involved with hundreds of startups and nearly a thousand financings (including follow-ons). Similar situations crop up again and again.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Seed-stage means promising companies that don’t yet have a revenue stream, and may not yet have a proof of concept. Super Angels. Business accelerator.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. « About the Series Seed Documents | Main. Series Seed Financing Documents. Please note, these are the latest versions of the Series Seed Documents.    Series Seed COI (v 2.0). Series Seed IRA (v 2.0). .  SeriesSeed.com.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

As an entrepreneur, your goal when raising financing is to get several term sheets — the documents describing the terms and conditions of financing. One of the worst positions you can be in during a financing is to have investors interested, but be too far short of your goal. Go the extra mile to be transparent.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

To some degree the best way to describe a pre-seed round is that you know it when you see it, as the definition is squishy… but most pre-seed rounds are characterized as relatively small ($750K or less), early in company formation (pre-product), and typically followed by a larger “seed” round ($1M-$3M) within 12 months.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

From those founders, we are aware that FC takes their mission “to be the most aligned fund to founders at the seed stage” very seriously. In general, these investments were rarely competitive at the time of their first financing. FC’s portfolio is made up exclusively of seed stage investments at seed valuations.

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Rob Go

JULY 29, 2014

But we think they are important even at the seed stage of a business. We tend to suggest that seed stage companies convene with their board ever 6-8 weeks. This is the reason why you should really be careful about picking the right investor and board member, not just maximizing terms on a financing round.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. To provide relevant perspective, listing past convertible note(s) and/or equity financing(s) including total round size and valuation (caps) is helpful. Here we are, at (one of) the final slides.

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ithacaVC

MARCH 9, 2017

If the board is already large and we are coming into the company later in its stage of growth, then an observer seat might be fine. One situation is really scary though. From my perspective, this is typically a sign of paranoia. .

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Dharmesh Shah had a great post up last week about the lessons learned from raising a mezzanine round of financing. When you compromise on terms in the early stages, you will have to pay the price in the later stages. It’s really interesting, but perhaps only applicable to a more limited set of entrepreneurs.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 22, 2014

Hey founders, want to hear something incredibly frustrating about seed financing? Revenue runrate that you believe is required to raise additional financing. In most cases we try to shift focus to a Top Down Forecasting model as it’s more milestone-based, which we think is appropriate for early stage startups.

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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.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

My partner Erik Rannala has had a similar experience, having worked as a VC at Harrison Metal before moving down to LA to co-found our seed stage venture firm. By the time the venture financing topic is broached, they already have significant traction for their business.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 8, 2021

We still look for pre-seed and seed stage opportunities, as we believe these are the stages where we can add the most value. The Opportunities Fund lets us double down on our winners and gives us the ability to partner with our founders in their later financing rounds.

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