Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2022

Rather, when you have a choice between a financing at a lower valuation and a financing with all kinds of crazy structure to try to maintain a previous valuation, negotiate the best price you can but do a clean financing with no structure. .” Now, I’m not encouraging anyone to do a down round if unnecessary.,

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2016

We just led a $22 million financing in Glowforge. When we led a $9 million financing in Glowforge a little over a year ago, we were excited about the potential to do to the subtractive 3D printing world what we did with MakerBot in the additive / FDM 3D printing world. I’ll start with the punchline – lasers are super cool.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2014

This morning we announced that we have closed a financing in OnTheGo Platforms via our FG Angels syndicate. On October 1st, 2013 we announced that we’d be forming an AngelList syndicate called FG Angels and making 50 seed investments through AngelList by the end of 2014. would come from syndicate participants.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2014

So – I’ll start with that – this is not a prediction, rather it’s a hypothesis, which is as long as there isn’t a cataclysmic macro event, Q115 financing activity is going to be insane. The number of large, “later stage” financings are remarkable – both in size and velocity.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 10, 2010

My partner Seth Levine has a detailed post up today titled Trada – from the beginning that describes the creation and financing of Trada. In this case neither Niel (nor I) had any interest in creating a traditional syndicate to fund the company. Tags: Seed Financing angel financing Foundry Group seed trada VC.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2015

.”) But at the end of 2013, when the JOBS Act became official and AngelList created Syndicates, we decided to understand the phenomenon better by participating in it.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 29, 2015

No understanding of the human dynamics behind the financing. No underlying metrics that drive the financing. Recently, the gang at SalesLoft told the detailed story of their $10m financing. None of them covered the financing in any way. financing of Mattermark. There’s no real story there.

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