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Q316 State of Venture Capital Update With Cooley

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This quarter they interviewed me as part of it on Quarterly VC Update: Brad Feld on the State of Venture Capital Investing. If so, how does that influence the venture market or your investment strategy? This is mostly impacting the later stages. Each quarter Cooley does a VC market update.

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Our 2016 Foundry Group Fund and A Little History

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Yesterday we closed our fifth fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007. We subsequently raised a $225 million fund in 2010 , another one in 2013 , and a late stage fund in 2013. We only invest in the US, but will invest anywhere in the US.

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Does VC Fund Differentiation Matter?

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Are you going to only invest from the fund, or are you going to create SPVs on deals in later stages? If I give you $1, are you going to invest $0.85, $1 (meaning you recycle), or $1.10 (meaning you recycle 110%)? I paused to eat another piece of sushi.

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Unicorpse

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“Indeed, contrary to Kupor’s argument at the Rosewood, it is this later-stage investing—with its shortage of regulation, tremendous envy, and Schadenfreude—that worries many bubble-watchers. “We .” The word showed up again in Nick Bilton’s Vanity Fair article Is Silicon Valley in Another Bubble.

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Foundry Group Next

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We were clear at that point that we wanted to continue to make early stage investments through a new Foundry Group fund, which we subsequently raised in the middle of 2015 and started investing at the end of the year. At the same time we discussed our later stage investment strategy.

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Make Your Own Decisions

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This is true at early stages but also true at later stages. We describe Foundry Group ‘s behavior as “syndication agnostic.” ” When we make an investment, we are completely agnostic as to whether or not we have a co-investor.

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