View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

Use good judgment, talk to your co-founders/investors/lawyers, and partner with a bank that values transparency and relationships such as SVB.]. NVV: Let’s talk about the seed stage specifically. It’s not often a seed-stage company — usually it’s later — but the trends are going earlier and larger.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. A fund size of $100 million – $200 million is likely to either be an A round investor or “stage agnostic&#.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. Seed stage was super tough.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I had met Brendan that past Spring when I had just left Insight Data Science and he was at Greylock Partners. At later stages, there’s more access to private data that they can benchmark against their own successful portfolio. So, what do we do at the seed stage?

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Different investors place different weights on the three elements but as a rule earlier stage investors place more emphasis on the team and later stage investors place more emphasis on the market. Some very early stage investors go as far as to say that for them team is everything.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

– I spoke about GRP’s recent exit of Ulta in which we returned $320 million to our limited partners. Convertible debt is a loan to the company that doesn’t typically get paid back but rather “converts&# into equity when you raise a larger round at a later date. Great exit. -

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates. 2) The Bundled Expertise Syndicate.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2017

It was a conscious decision to maintain the fund size at the same level, despite both market pressure (larger rounds at earlier stages) and demand pressure (lots of LP money entering the stage) to raise a larger fund. I would like to thank all the limited partners who entrust me and K9 to invest their capital.

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

At NextView Ventures, we’re hyper-focused on the seed stage, and since starting the firm, we’ve heard repeatedly and consistently from founders that a primary challenge they face during that stage is hiring. And their feedback isn’t about hiring in general, nor is about hiring senior executives. We could be doing more.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

This is what has led to the current frothiness at the seed stage, because these angels pay up for access to deals. They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. They have 4-10 partners who are investing on their behalf. 1-2 per partner.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

And that product is a highly engaged seed-stage investment where we are usually the lead or co-lead in a round and will often take a board seat. So, the bar will be different for each investor, and for very early stage fundraising, the goal is to find true believers more than convincing skeptics. (My

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 6, 2015

Invests seed stage in wide variety of companies but special love for true tech based startups. Multi Stage – Ethan Kurzweil. By the way, I was tempted to call this category “later stage” because it totally pisses these guys off when you call A Round “later stage.”.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .” ”) Pressed into service for seed financing, it is, to some extent, a square peg fit into a round hole.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 20, 2015

One of the patterns that I have seen is that for pre-seed and seed stage companies (could be for later stages like Series A and B as well, but once a company is mature, some CFOs can handle the pitching as well if not better than the CEO) if the CEO is not the primary person pitching the company, then that’s a bad signal.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Most importantly from my frame of reference, the amount of activity at the early and seed stage seems to be extremely robust. Mid-stage is when you are now selling reality and are often too early to show that you will be a large, long term successful business. This is mostly impacting the later stages.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We only make a small number of investments each year per partner so that we can be hands-on. We take board seats and want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with founders at the seed stage to try to make the biggest possible impact. – We are seed investors. The least was on the firm’s brochure-ware.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In October, we held our annual Limited Partners meeting at NextView. From the seed stage perspective, what we’ve seen this year is that the definition of a seed round has broadened considerably. But, looking further downstream, the later stage funding landscape has been incredibly robust.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 17, 2017

This is a strategy where a large, multi-stage VC makes a small, passive investment in a company, usually under $500K. Usually, the investment process is very fast – you don’t need to do a full partner meeting, they don’t take a board seat, the VC is price insensitive, etc. But this doesn’t happen all that often.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Some have done earlier-stage deals and done well. Others have chased earlier-stage but lack the skills or relationships to do this effectively. Some have moved into later stage investments in an effort to “put logos on their websites.&# These trends have put pressure on traditional VCs. There are also others.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We’ve written before on how to research partners , how to pitch the right investor at a given firm, and how to raise seed capital , generally speaking. What I mean is that after a first meeting with a single partner, that partner might say “Great discussion.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Angels and even VC firms occasionally do this, but they alsoinvest at later stages. The problems are different in the early stages. So seed investors usually care lessabout the idea than the people. This is true of all venture funding,but especially so in the seed stage. Dont be misled by thisoptimism.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We only make a small number of investments each year per partner so that we can be hands-on. We take board seats and want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with founders at the seed stage to try to make the biggest possible impact. – We are seed investors. The least was on the firm’s brochure-ware.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries. Alpha Partners and Proof provide capital when their partner VCs don’t have pro rata, and share the economics on the investments. “software”); 43 invest in 2 types of technology (e.g., 3) Geography-defined funds.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Janvest , a new seed fund of $5 million backed by American angel investors and chaired by the former head of the Mossad (Danny Yatom), saw an opportunity to fill the gap by making offering US-based angel investors the opportunity to tap into the Israeli startup industry. VCs are investing in later stage companies.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. Lastly, seed-stage entrepreneurs who have pushed for the maximum valuation possible haven’t done themselves any favors. ” On a micro level, failure is always painful. The stakes for everyone are lower.

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