Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. In the past I have publicly commented on some specific companies that seemed over valued. But everything has intrinsic value.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

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. I have one on my desk and it gives me joy every day I’m in the office. Rock Band 4 comes out next week.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

If you hang around in our office at Foundry Group you see plenty of Makerbots, Fitbits, an Oblong Mezzanine, an Occipital Structure Sensor, ModRobotics Cubelets, littleBits, 3D Robotics drones, and Spheros. It’s a great example of the power of a prepared mind, magical technology, and the Techstars corporate accelerator dynamic.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. Versatile is particularly interested in fintech and salestech companies.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 30, 2019

They invented the idea of multi-stream collaboration and have been implementing a high-end multi-stream sharing environment in high-end video conferencing rooms with their Mezzanine product. And, with their g-speak platform , you can integrate this capability into any technology environment. Until recently.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A $42M technology-focused Pre-Seed fund. Series C/D is the new Mezzanine. This has been pretty much what K9 has been doing since 2013. In fact, when I announced K9 Ventures III in August 2017, the term Pre-Seed was part of the headline for that announcement: Announcing K9 Ventures III, L.P. – That’s the beautiful part.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. As some of the last generation of startups have gotten bigger many VCs have also chased later-stage investments that were traditionally dominated by growth equity or mezzanine funds.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This year’s conference will highlight twenty promising early-growth companies; all based in the Rocky Mountain region and a majority of which are focused on clean technology, a burgeoning industry in the area. RavenBrick delivers innovative solar-controlled windows, which reduce energy costs by up to 50 percent.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Twenty Companies Ranging From Seed Stage to Mezzanine Will Showcase Next Generation Technologies from Various Industries at the 27 th Annual VCIR Winter 2010 Conference. Companies from Colorado represent the majority of presenters and constitute all of the clean technology and new energy companies participating in the conference.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. The other risk of growing slow in the technology business is that established tech companies will crush your slow growing start up if you give them enough time. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.

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VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2010

38% of venture capitalists believe that their focus should be on updating the technological incubators program. 13% of respondents believe this gap to be in Mezzanine financing and no venture capitalist believes that there is no investment gap. 77% of venture capitalists believe the gap is in Seed and First Round.

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