Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

A New Kind of Venture Firm AutoChrome Autochrome is an inception and seed stage venture capital fund. We invest at the earliest stages in transformative companies that are leveraging technology to move our species forward. home Breaux Capital Breaux and Company is a creative agency and social justice startup incubator.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

I think our POV comes through in this discussion and hopefully it helps any founders decide if we’re the type of seed fund they’d enjoy working with. Some of my favorites from the post: So much capital is coming into the seed stage. There’s no capital gap structurally at the seed stage. – Me!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

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. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups, the hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. Super Angels.

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Early Stage Seed Stage Angel Investor Silicon Valley 231

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Austin Technology Incubator is hiring for these positions, so make sure to apply now. IT & Wireless Incubator “Assistant Director&#. ATI’s Wireless and IT incubators have supported an incredible slate of companies in the recent past – Calxeda , GameSalad , Spredfast , qcue and numerous others.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Incubator Due Diligence 70

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. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Super Angels.

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Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 253

Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. The adage that 9 women cannot incubate a baby in 1 month is apt here. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape. Now in Q2, things are a bit different.

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Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Convertible Security 48

Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. The adage that 9 women cannot incubate a baby in 1 month is apt here. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape. Now in Q2, things are a bit different.

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Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Convertible Security 48

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. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Super Angels.

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Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

I recently attended a Demo Day for a well-known incubator. If your seed-stage company fits the criteria above, please contact me. I like to analyze data, find relations between variables, extract insights that are sometimes far from obvious or even counterintuitive. For the others, I would be excited to be involved in some form.

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San Francisco Startup Silicon Valley Seed Stage 55

Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

But one day, at night, I decided to just Google NYC incubators. So I have embraced it fully, and though we are still in the early stages (seed stage), it’s the hardest thing I have ever done yet it’s the most fulfilling thing to me. That led to a pleasant discovery?—?my or give you this experience?—?in in one undertaking!

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

Incubators and Accelerators : Incubators and accelerators have to a large extent replaced the funding from friends and family. The incubators and accelerators are investing $15-$50K in a large number of early stage teams (the current YC class has 60+ teams !). Incubator / Accelerator. Friends & Family.

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Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 19, 2011

Incubating and Training for Startups and Small Businesses. Nashville's seed-stage microfund Jumpstart Foundry recently made a pivot to become a full-fledged tech business incubator. There's a pipeline of talent here although echoing what we hear in a lot of places, there's always a need for "more engineers.".

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Nashville Ruby Seed Stage Incubator 161

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 29, 2017

Would you be willing to share your application to [incubator/accelerator] with us so that we can use it as a way to collaboratively discuss what you’ve learned since then?” ” For many accelerators and incubators, demo days kick off a fundraising process for a full round or additional capital based on inbound demand.

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Founder Incubator Seed Stage Lead Investor 71

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 26, 2014

We are a bit like an accelerator programme, a bit like an incubator and a bit like a straight early stage fund, yet we are also different to all of these things in crucial ways. We invest in 1-2 companies per quarter that join us for a year long programme, and we invest in late-seed stage companies too.

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eCommerce Partner Incubator Early Stage 98

K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Instead, it was more of a result of over-funding at the seed stage. There was simply too much money coming in to the seed stage, which increased the supply of companies at the seed stage. The Seed round is larger — closer to and sometimes upwards of $2M. Series C/D is the new Mezzanine.

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Mezzanine Seed Stage Early Stage IPO 134

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

We spend tremendous energy recruiting between 100 and 200 angels and seed-stage investors who may invest in your business. Meng Weng Wong is co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia , which he helped started in 2010 to bring the TechStars model of startup incubation to Southeast Asia. They have first priority.

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Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator 184

View from Seed

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Quilt (a NextView portfolio company incubated in our Boston office) recently launched a fully digital life insurance product that approves policies in just 15 minutes. As we’ve said before, as seed-stage investors, we think broadly about these opportunities and the interconnectedness of many of them.

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Finance Distribution Seed Stage Government 185

David Teten

JUNE 5, 2015

New York, NY — The Teten Family is proud to announce that we just finalized our investment in a seed-stage startup, temporarily operating under the name “NewBo” or “Peanut”. My mother literally carried this company for 38 weeks in her mobile incubator while I was generating no income. Currently, at 6 lbs.

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Due Diligence Seed Stage Startup Incubator 60

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

One of the things I like least about seed stage venture is the compressed amount of time to get to know a new founder during fundraising.

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Founder Seed Stage Incubator Hiring 114

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2017

The investing strategy for K9 stands in stark contrast to most “early-stage” (incubators, accelerators, pre-seed and seed stage) investing. A lot of people assume that The Kennel is an incubator — it is not. And yes, I’m presently 42. At K9 we do the opposite of the volume game.

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Technology LP San Francisco Portfolio 96

Genuine VC

JUNE 22, 2011

We have already incubated one startup in our portfolio, Boundless Learning, and will likely do so again within this fund. Our model at NextView isn’t an incubator, so our space isn’t set up for one.). So rather than coming to an office just to sit in a room by oneself, we wanted a space that fostered interaction by design.

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Seed Stage Boston Incubator Portfolio 123

Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

” The theory is that the number of seed stage Series A deals led by venture capital firms is decreasing, meaning that it will be difficult for startups to raise a new round of financing. At the maturity date, there is a risk that investors may demand repayment.

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Convertible Security Equity Security Preferred Stock 73

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Seed round is larger — closer to and sometimes upwards of $2M. The Series A is now the fourth round of funding for a company — the first is usually friends and family, or an incubator (~$50K), then pre-seed (~$500K), then seed (~$2M), then Series A (~$6M-$15M). A Pre-Seed company certainly hasn’t met the same bar.

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

Looking back on this, in a way, it’s silly; yet, for seed-stage investors and the founders we back, getting companies from seed to Series A is a really important milestone, a milestone I’ve likened to getting into the graduate school of one’s choice.

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Naming Venture Capital Seed Stage Cap Table 60

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When Homebrew launched two years ago, Satya and I knew that smart hardware was going to be important to our Bottom Up Economy thesis but also that neither of us yet had meaningful experience working alongside the best hardware entrepreneurs at the seed stage where we invest.

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Seed Stage Cofounder Incubator Leadership 48

Scott Edward Walker

JULY 25, 2013

I think objectively there are too many seed-stage companies…The good news is, I don’t think it’s a systemic problem.” (at This is the problem at the heart of the incubator model.” (at “The culture of entrepreneurship is spreading, and that’s happening all around the world – and I think that’s a really, really big deal.” (at

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Silicon Valley Seed Stage Lean IP 74

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage. Your company is an idea that exists in your head and nowhere else unless you’re willing to do anything possible to make it pervade a consciousness beyond your own.

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New York City New York Entrepreneur Seed Stage 120

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage. Your company is an idea that exists in your head and nowhere else unless you’re willing to do anything possible to make it pervade a consciousness beyond your own.

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New York City New York Entrepreneur Seed Stage 120

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. You can't tell what the company does.

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Massachusetts Entrepreneur Open Source Silicon Valley 113

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

At one point we were a 70 person organization, with 10 partners, 20 associates, two business development people, three recruiters, a marketing person, two incubators (anyone remember Hotbank?), We deeply believe that the way companies are created and funded, especially at the seed stage, is radically changing on a permanent basis.

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Advisory Board Venture Capital LP Seed Stage 70

Andrew Payne

MAY 24, 2010

Everyone seems to be talking about seed stage funds, how to get funding, how to start companies, the latest Y-combinator clone, organizing meetups, incubators/hatcheries, etc. around entrepreneurship?

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 19, 2010

I’m realizing I’m spending a lot of time talking to venture friends about projects that they (a) can put a lot of capital into (that may not necessarily need it), (b) incubator/hatchery/Y-Combinator type programs, (c) new seed-stage funds, etc. Now, I’m not anti-VC at all.

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Seed Stage Incubator Programming Naming 49

Bryce Dot VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Since that first fund super angels have sprouted wings, accelerators have been, um, accelerating company formation and incubators have stopped being a 4 letter word. We’ve been deeply fortunate to have been able to catch the seed stage wave early and work with some of the most dynamic and thoughtful founders in our industry.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

There are a ton of seed-stage financing options available here. The only thing hurting Singapore is the shortage of mid-stage investors. Startups, incubators, and accelerators are popping up everywhere in this region, helping to turn it into the continent’s next big tech hub.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

As with other markets, one of the big gaps in LA is a shortage of very high quality, sophisticated seed stage capital coupled with operating expertise that can really help entrepreneurs at the ground floor. It’s probably my favorite new VC/Incubator name in a long time (way better than NextView).

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Sometimes they are fleeting, something that result in specific investments (or even incubated companies). I have a hunch about seed stage investing models. We’ve seen a trend of more and more interesting seed companies raising bigger and bigger rounds. Personally, I think more about specific hunches.

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