David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. Details here.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 22, 2014
Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals. With a portfolio of at least 20 investments, or you are at risk of the adverse selection problem.) Large regionally based early stage funds have mostly failed. They failed due to: the dearth of deals in the region that have IPO potential and.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
We have chosen to define “growth rounds” as rounds of $100 million or more but if you include deals of $50 million or more (traditional growth or mezzanine rounds) this accounts for 62% of the entire startup funding market. Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018.
Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
Indulge me while I go on an amazing product rant from our portfolio. Accenture just launched their Connected Analytics Experience’s immersive environment which is enabled by Mezzanine. As a daily user of Mezzanine, it actually makes video conference and collaboration tolerable. Rock Band 4 comes out next week.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Mezzanine lending (a rough comparable) has a 18-23% required rate of return. If a company exceeds projected revenues, the effective rate increases. to 15.0%.
K9 Ventures
APRIL 9, 2014
Most of these funds are <$100M, with the majority of them being clustered around the $40M mark (that’s the point where the fund economics start to work in terms of management fee and ability to take a meaningful stake in portfolio companies). Series C/D is the new Mezzanine. Welcome to the new venture landscape!
techcrunch.com
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. 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.
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