Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development. We three partners are working hard. Great to see you had such a good partner to start with.
View from Seed
JUNE 11, 2019
I believe it’s more important to optimize on the right lead investor vs. the highest valuations at the seed stage (within reason). The strongest investors usually aren’t cheap, but typically don’t do things outside of the normal bounds for a company at the seed stage.
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BeyondVC
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round”.
View from Seed
JANUARY 11, 2017
Banks invested because they wanted access to our large and growing consumer base or to try to catch the lightning in the bottle of our virally growing payments business. . We recently led a large seed round for an autonomous vehicle company called Optimus Ride. 4) Are these investment partners for the long haul?
Agile VC
JANUARY 27, 2012
There’s lot of anecdotal evidence for this: Seed stage investors (including NextView and many of our peers) are seeing more startups progress from seed to Series A stage in 6-9 months rather than 12-18. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. link] Ashish Datta.
Rob Go
MARCH 10, 2012
I think that over time, this is the best way to handle market swings as a seed stage investor who is a) playing in a highly unpredictable part of the market and b) has a very long time horizon. We have a pretty strong sense of what realistic valuation ranges are and aren’t for seed stage companies.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Luckily, I teach with two great VCs, Mar Hershenson of Pear Ventures and Jeff Epstein of Bessemer Venture Partners who both put together presentations unraveling the mysteries of how and why startups raise money. Pre-seed Round of Funding. In the pre-seed stage, a startup is searching for product/market fit.
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