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The Future of Health: How We Think About Investing in Healthier Living for Everyday People

View from Seed

We wanted to learn more about the nuanced industry market forces before applying the same hands-on investing model we do with tech startups in other verticals. We don’t seed companies that are developing drugs or medical devices that will require FDA approval. It’s a world that doesn’t fit our seed-focused model and fund strategy.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. Translation? was the worst ever.