David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. Now that I’ve been an institutional VC for a few years, I thought it would be helpful to revisit our findings from the investor side of the table. dedicated deal sourcers for every generalist investment professional.

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View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

These funds would regularly share deal flow with one another and could share the work in supporting founders and helping to push the company forward. This post will try to describe why this is happening and what repercussions are for founders and investors. Is This is Good or Bad for Founders?

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Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Cap Table 267

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. Greylock Partners. You can register for the survey here. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. Can you give a brief overview: when you were founded, investors, current status?

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

One of the earliest things we did at NextView when my partners and I started working together was go away as a team to the New Hampshire mountains. I’m thrilled by the companies we are investors in, as well as the founders that lead them. OUR PORTFOLIO. I’ve done little portfolio overviews from time to time.

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New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Portfolio 50

Hunter Walker

JUNE 29, 2014

I’m suprised how many founders – even multiple time entrepreneurs – are unfamiliar with the institutional investors that back most of the major venture funds. At Homebrew’s first annual meeting this past spring we invited founders and fund advisors to a dinner with our four major LPs.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

You've decided to spread that across Z funds and you hope your portfolio meets some threshold. You attend annual meetings and hop on investor calls as a means of oversight and to help you decide whether or not to invest in a future fund. LPs could represent meaningful co-investors on deals and great mentors to founders.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The actual partners of a VC firm (GPs) will typically invest a minimum of 1% of the total size of their fund,* though frequently this percentage is substantially higher (especially in many of the best funds). Endowments. new buildings, etc).

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We asked ourselves, “How do we offer something that founders want, and in fact, something that we’d want ourselves if we were raising our first round of seed funding?” We only make a small number of investments each year per partner so that we can be hands-on. – We are seed investors. Who Are We?

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Seed Stage Startup Portfolio Institutional Investors 120

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners.

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Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a founder, it feels like a long time, but it’s really a blip on the radar in the scheme of things. This is why I’ve made a habit of profiling our portfolio quantitatively and why we write summaries announcing pretty much all of our new investments. So, here is our annual quantitative summary of our portfolio.

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David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

I couldn’t be more excited to share that one of our portfolio companies, Ionic Security (formerly Social Fortress), has raised $9.4 Ted Schlein, general partner at KPCB , and Tom Noonan, partner at TechOperators , will join the board of directors. (This is the second ff VC company that KPCB has invested in, after Klout.).

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Venture Capital Security Operations Atlanta 114

David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

This is the debut of an annual series of summits focused on sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, family offices, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs interested in technology-driven entrepreneurship and with ties to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The summit is hosted by: – ABANA – the preeminent U.S.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We each independently fell in love with enterprise software 20+ years ago as seed investors (cos like gotomeeting/Citrix, greenplum/EMC, livperson/IPO LPSN) and founders (workmarket, onforce/Adecco, spinback/buddymedia/salesf0rce) and are now benefiting from the ecosystems, knowledge and network that we’ve collectively developed.

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Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 60

Hunter Walker

MAY 2, 2016

Advisory Board lunch w our largest investors followed by a State of Homebrew, State of the Market, State of our Portfolio presentation. We ended the day with presentations from four of the founders we’ve backed (they did a great, great job). And then a dinner with our institutional investors, founders and advisors.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 2, 2016

Advisory Board lunch w our largest investors followed by a State of Homebrew, State of the Market, State of our Portfolio presentation. We ended the day with presentations from four of the founders we’ve backed (they did a great, great job). And then a dinner with our institutional investors, founders and advisors.

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Advisory Board LP Institutional Investors Portfolio 48

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most founders who are raising capital look first to traditional equity VCs. Or should they look to one of the new wave of Revenue-Based Investors? For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Like traditional lenders, RBI investors usually don’t take board seats.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Sentiment is strong in personal portfolios and up commensurately with VC’s expectations that their last fund will now be worth something (and along with that increase the partners’ personal wealth).

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Hunter Walker

MAY 18, 2015

The James Irvine Foundation joined us in Fund I and has been a great partner since. Anne Dinneen: Nothing has contributed more to the growth of the Irvine endowment over the years than our venture portfolio. An investor needs much more than patient capital and an appetite for illiquidity. in nonprofit grants to that extent.

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LP Portfolio Early Stage Institutional Investors 48

Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

We brief our major investors quarterly and decided to model our LP meeting after what “big funds” do, albeit with a few Homebrew flourishes :) Logistically this meant an afternoon session with presentations/Q&A then a dinner with founders/advisors. Afternoon Session. Roughly 50% result in a first meeting.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

This in theory is very similar to the behavior of institutional investors, however, there is one big difference. Institutional investors make sizable investments in a company, so that when they do get a big hit that can make the whole fund. Institutional Venture Funds : aka your friendly neighborhood traditional VC fund.

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Bryce Dot VC

DECEMBER 4, 2012

That post sparked a series of conversations, both online and off, about what makes a pitch great and how to best use the time a founder secures with a potential investor. One point several commenters took issue with was my suggestion that founders ought to have a pitch deck prepared for their first meeting with an investor.

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LP Advisory Board Institutional Investors Security 60

Rob Go

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We asked ourselves, “How do we offer something that founders want, and in fact, something that we’d want ourselves if we were raising our first round of seed funding?” We only make a small number of investments each year per partner so that we can be hands-on. – We are seed investors. Who Are We?

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Seed Stage Portfolio Institutional Investors Later Stage 28

Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Given this definition, we continue to see dedicated seed funds providing strong benefits for founders, including: Minimal signaling risk at the next round of financing. This risk is alive and well and makes dedicated seed funds a compelling option for founders. Partner Time. Flexibility of exit options.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. Moshe Bar, a general partner in the fund is a former entrepreneur and chairman of Zooppa – full article. Footbo raises $2.5 Chicago-based Future Simple raised $1.1 – Israeli MFA. Miscellaneous.

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