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Kindred Spirits – Our Investment In Founder Collective

Feld Thoughts

One of our recent investments, offered by Founder Collective (FC) – an eight-year-old manager with offices in Boston and San Francisco – is an excellent example of what we look for when we invest in funds offered by other managers. FC’s portfolio is made up exclusively of seed stage investments at seed valuations.

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Off to the Races with Team Nextview

View from Seed

At the seed stage and as companies scale, helping the founders I work with identify and reach their goals, personally and professionally, gives me energy and purpose. I made over a dozen angel investments and a few investments in VC funds as an LP, expanding my focus to new geographies, sectors, and stages.

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Announcing K9 Ventures III, L.P. – A $42M technology-focused Pre-Seed fund

K9 Ventures

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. K9’s last fund, K9 Ventures II, L.P., was a $40M fund. And yes, I’m presently 42.

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Seed Is The New A – #PreMoney 2015 Talk

K9 Ventures

Here is the video recording of the talk I gave at 500 Startups ‘ PreMoney Conference in San Francisco on 12 June. . Seed Is The New A: What The Seed-Stage Explosion Means For Founders, GPs & LPs. And the deck from my talk. Thanks to 500 Startups #PreMoney.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries. J-Angels “is a community and a VC fund of top American investors (Jewish-American & Israeli-born) in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.”. “software”); 43 invest in 2 types of technology (e.g.,