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Syndicate Funding on AngelList – A Company’s Perspective

VC Adventure

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates - enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). It’s a great idea and at Foundry we quickly decided it would be an interesting experiment to form our own syndicate.

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Syndicate Funding on AngelList – A Company’s Perspective

VC Adventure

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates – enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). It’s a great idea and at Foundry we quickly decided it would be an interesting experiment to form our own syndicate.

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How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate

Genuine VC

Term-driving investor approach – An entrepreneur finds a lead (quasi-)institutional venture investor to price and set the structure/dynamics of the round, working together to bring in additional syndicate partners (either/both other funds and individual angels). larger check writers have a greater tendency to lead rounds).

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

In turn, some funds have a more friendly posture towards us and try to structure deals that incentive syndicate investors in a way that doesn’t massively disadvantage the seed investors. But others were obviously viewing seed investing as a means to an end and crept later and later stage once the opportunity presented itself.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. I use this to host my presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. I host on Hostforweb **.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There are too many deals to look at, too many seed funds or angels asking you to look at deals and weekly “demo days” with manicured and monocultural presentations crafted by experienced story tellers to help even the mundane idea sound like it will. For investors life is no different.