Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

In NextView’s case that’s seed stage internet and software companies. I’ve always respected Bessemer for publishing their “ Anti-Portfolio ” on their website. My partners and I at NextView know we’ll be wrong a decent chunk of the time, especially as seed stage investors.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. NextView originally invested in the company’s seed round in the spring of 2011 and we again participated in this latest round along with Atlas Venture. How To Think About The Future.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The energy that it takes persuading someone who starts with a bias not to invest is much better suited searching for additional prospects who want to believe in what you’re building. I’ve seen both outcomes in a prolonged “believer” search.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Also portfolio management strategy has shifted a bit in recent years, and many large investors now evaluate at all risky assets together (US tech IPOs, Brazilian bonds, Chinese private equity, etc) rather than making discrete allocations to each bucket. ” but either way, the IPO market will undoubtedly return. Author howerl.

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View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

Second, embrace that early stage fundraising is always a search for true believers. Another founder in our portfolio recently remarked at how her business is one that investors initially don’t immediately “get”, but tend to appreciate over time as they talk to more and more people about this market problem.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) For the company, he’s led multiple tech teams focused on products like voice and image search, Google Search for iOS, Google Glass, and Android Wear. How do you position yourself as the latter if you’re a seed-stage startup founder?

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging. There’s No Black or White.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

GrabCAD has used search optimization to drive the bulk of it’s user acquisition, very similar to the way Yelp and others did. I hate indulging in wanton portfolio self-promotion, but my partners & I are incredibly excited about these companies and will undoubtedly continue to make more investments in this vein. Read More ».

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Austin Startup

JULY 29, 2018

It doesn’t make any sense to pitch a later stage, “growth” investor with your seed stage idea just like it doesn’t make much sense to pitch a new tech startup to an investor who only does oil & gas. They rationalize it with portfolio theory but almost everyone I know does it because they really enjoy it.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The current portfolio ranges from 60 Ghz chip sets (Nitero) to enterprise 2.0 ( InXero ) to family media ( Famigo ) companies. The Assistant Director will also help host the Texas Wireless Summit , the Wireless Seed Stage Forum and the Entrepreneur Lounge at SXSW (this alone is worth it).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2018

Use your network to search out CEOs funded by any investor you are considering. Include CEOs who were turned down and even CEOs who were parachuted into investors’ portfolio companies. Wayne Embree is an experienced seed-stage investor with a 30-year track record of fueling startup growth through venture capital.

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

Google finally fixes the problem with mobile (discovery, search, distribution, tracking, monetization, a/b testing) and races ahead while Apple waxes nostalgically for 2010. Huge funding gap appears for seed stage companies as seed stage VC firms look for series A traction and accelerators look for seed stage traction.

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Babbling VC

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Additionally, once the funds themselves have significant capital, they will double-down on the good deals in their portfolio and put more money to work. This is very much the case if your portfolio company explodes and is able to raise from others with more capital than you yourself have available. .

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of our prior investments was an e-commerce company that grew primarily through organic search. Normally I would counsel seed stage companies not to take strategic investment but that wasn’t the case here.

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). Below, I’ll quickly explain the genesis of this initiative and share a few more key details.

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

Google finally fixes the problem with mobile (discovery, search, distribution, tracking, monetization, a/b testing) and races ahead while Apple waxes nostalgically for 2010. Huge funding gap appears for seed stage companies as seed stage VC firms look for series A traction and accelerators look for seed stage traction.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

While it it may not feel that way, the data suggest that there is indeed too much capital in the system — especially so at the seed stage, with more and more individuals and larger funds trying to invest in companies at this stage.). Nine women can’t make a baby in one month.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

As many of you know, NextView is a seed-stage VC fund. We make initial investments of $250-500K in the seed rounds of software and internet startups and reserve capital for follow-on rounds. Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way. Best of luck. PMarchetti.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

While it it may not feel that way, the data suggest that there is indeed too much capital in the system — especially so at the seed stage, with more and more individuals and larger funds trying to invest in companies at this stage.). Nine women can’t make a baby in one month.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

I wouldn’t say we’re radically reinventing venture capital and there are many firms we respect who have been innovating recently in connecting a portfolio of startups into a network , taking a different approach to how to staff a VC firm , and even the pace of VC investing. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

At NextView we’ve intentionally taken an approach which combines both thematic and opportunistic investing for a couple reasons: 1) Our Overall Strategy is Highly Focused - We’re a dedicated seed VC fund, so we invest in startups exclusively at the seed stage. Pingback: watch inception online. Pingback: [link].

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Rob Go

JULY 18, 2019

Second, embrace that early stage fundraising is always a search for true believers. Another founder in our portfolio recently remarked at how her business is one that investors initially don’t immediately “get”, but tend to appreciate over time as they talk to more and more people about this market problem.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Startups in NextView’s portfolio frequently receive inbound interest from other VC investors who are intrigued about what they’re doing, and I often talk with other early-stage entrepreneurs how to approach similar situations. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

In our best-performing companies we often write follow-on checks totaling up to $10–15 million out of our early-stage fund. I think somehow the larger funds desensitized some investors around check sizes and incentivized them to search for places to deploy $50 million or more.

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Rob Go

AUGUST 5, 2011

We think of our own search for office space as indicative of what seed stage companies that we invest in would go through. Our Portfolio Company Boundless Learning and TurningArt had similar needs. For us, the answer was the Leather District. And it wasn’t just for us. All in all, it was a great night.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

I’ve had a couple conversations with other investors recently around what a seed stage company needs to achieve to raise a series A. You are searching for stuff that is repeatable and scaleable. What are the risks of your business and have you found ways to address those risks or eliminate them altogether?

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In addition to reporting on the progress of our funds and the exciting stuff happening with the portfolio, we shared some thoughts on the broader market environment for VC’s and venture backed technology companies. From the seed stage perspective, what we’ve seen this year is that the definition of a seed round has broadened considerably.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Haystack Portfolio Data. Well, that time has finally come. These questions have been rattling around my brain.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. Authenticity to NextView.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

At NextView, we’ve long had a set of ethos or guiding principles behind all we do, which includes internal work as a team, external work as investors, and the lens through which we view seed-stage startups and their founding teams. Authenticity to NextView.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

From expert AMAs tailored to your pre-seed needs to hands-on mentorship from relevant, established entrepreneurs within the NextView portfolio to founder-only sessions that create a safe space for sharing and supporting one another, our programming is created to meet you where you are and propel you forward in the direction we believe you can go. .

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

And 2 seed stage companies that haven’t launched yet. That’s 7 out of about 29 investments that K9 has made to date and so that’s almost 1/4 of the K9 portfolio. Among the fun inventory stories, twice one of my portfolio companies has ended up forecasting less than what they could have sold.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

Most of this initial period has been focused on the build-out of core infrastructure: ubiquitous broadband (Cisco, Qualcomm), information search (Yahoo, AOL), mobile & cloud computing (Apple, Samsung, AWS), and the social mesh (Facebook) laid on top. Innovation in search, social, broadband, and mobile & cloud hasn’t come to an end.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

In the largest sector, Internet, median deal size increased at every stage of funding for the first time ever, CB Insights said. Venture capitalists were particularly aggressive on early-stage investments in the second quarter. There were more seed deals than Series A fundings for the first time ever. Latest Video.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

For entrepreneurs seeking to build big companies on a rapid trajectory, raising larger scale venture capital rounds is likely a necessity at some point after the initial seed funding. At NextView, we spend a substantial portion of our time trying to help our portfolio companies prepare for growth as “venture scale” businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I think how hard it is for me to be hands-on with a handful of portfolio companies. He was talking profusely about their portfolio company email lists and the knowledge that is shared. EcoMom Makes a Breakthrough in its Search for Funding. I started to realize that Dave is able to do it because he approaches VC differently.

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