View from Seed

APRIL 6, 2021

We continue to believe that NYC is very underserved by seed investors who can lead with high conviction, and we are excited to continue to grow our presence in this fabulous city. NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $200M+ of committed capital under management. Who Are We Looking For.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2021

Looking to raise seed funding for your startup? The post How To Raise Pre-Seed And Seed Funding: 5 Alternative Strategies appeared first on Young Upstarts. CEO and Co-Founder of Chisos Capital William Stringer shares 5 alternative strategies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2012

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Fundraising is indeed brutally tough at all stages, and the seed funding is the hardest to find.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The question arose: What is a seed VC’s process like when a company is pre-product? This notion of founder/market fit is incredibly important for pre-product companies who are out raising seed capital or pre-seed (aka genesis rounds) — both of which we invest in. The below article answers that question.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Over the past few years, “pre-seed” as a distinct category has emerged within the early stage fundraising landscape. In reality, a pre-seed is “an early round of financing that is designed to help a company achieve certain intermediate milestones PRIOR to the magic combination of strong PMF + meaningful traction.”. What gives?

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I sent a tweet out last week that elicited quite a few responses from both founders and investors: seed funds that don’t invest pre-traction =. — First – there are a lot of seed investors out there that don’t actually want to invest in seed. Rob Go (@robgo) November 4, 2019.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2023

With the seed funding, Sincera plans to expand its engineering team to better serve the flood of customer interest which the company has experienced since launching last year. That fact is further corroborated by participating leading angel investors in adtech, including Jonah Goodhart , Ari Paparo , Auren Hoffman , and Dave Yaffe.

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For Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

There is much hand wringing in the startup ecosystem about various forms of signaling between the seed and A rounds. Conventional wisdom, and advice, abounds: entrepreneurs should never include a venture firm in their seed round because it’ll scare other VCs off from pursuing the A.

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Haystack

JUNE 2, 2018

If you read yesterday’s post, you can see just how insane the proliferation of seed financings have been. This a common refrain among many seed investors in private. As a result, I personally cannot keep up with all the deal flow. When I started investing and no one knew me, I would just invest in folks I knew well.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In previous blog posts I’ve written about the two main approaches to building a seed round syndicate – the subscription method (where an entrepreneur presets a structure with a convertible note or SAFE and recruits investors who subscribe to the round, all without a term-driving lead investor) and a term-driving lead investor approach.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Lately, we have seen more founders grappling with the question of whether to include a Series A investor in their seed round. For a seed fund like us, our primary focus is to get a company from “seed” to “A.” 1:3) can be a good sign of the importance of seed relative to A at the firm. For example, a high ratio (e.g.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Frontline Ventures conducted a survey of 206 global startup founders , revealing which factors are the most important to pre-seed and seed founders when choosing between VCs. Understanding of the sector is the most important factor for founders when choosing a VC in seed/pre-seed.

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2019

Here are a couple tips and suggestions on how to go about creating the most supportive investor base for a typical institutional seed round. I believe it’s more important to optimize on the right lead investor vs. the highest valuations at the seed stage (within reason). Get early commits to start generating momentum.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 7, 2020

About a year ago, my partner David Beisel talked about how seed fundraising is no longer a local game , and that the best entrepreneurs seek out the best investors for them outside of their home market. That being said, it’s much easier to put a seed round together when you have a local lead who can help catalyze the round.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

-Institutional investor (anonymous) What-do-LPs-look-for-in-emerging-managers_ Download I agree with Vijen Patel that 2023 might be one of the best VC seed Vintages but most institutional LPs are standing on the sidelines. 2023 will be one of the best VC seed vintages, but most institutional LP's are not leaning in.

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Gust

JANUARY 13, 2023

New York State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) and it's venture capital management arm, NY Ventures is providing support and capital of $30 million for it's Pre-seed and Seed Matching Fund Program to help early stage startups who are registered in New York.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. Seed stage was super tough. Seed is the New A. The Epilogue.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

So raise your seed round and get back to work.' Announcing Last Funding Is Really About Starting the Next Round of Fundraising: There’s so much capital chasing good companies that the minute you start telling people about your company you’re kind of starting the clock on inbound interest.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Five years ago, as the mania around seed fundings was accelerating, Founders were very eager to announce their seed round to the world. 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. Here’s why. It’s a jungle out there.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Marc Andreessen kicked off another great debate on Twitter last night , one that I’ve been talking about incessantly in private circles for the past 2-3 years – what actually IS the definition of a seed vs. A-round. When I first became a VC, seed rounds were typically $500k – $1.5 Why the latter?

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. As Rob Go wrote , board decks and board meetings can waste loads of time at the seed stage. The seed stage is all about traction.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

Raising seed capital is a tricky business. High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. Without seed funding most startups seeking high growth won’t make it. When launching your company there are 2 times to raise your outside seed funding, and one time window to avoid. high growth. Capital = Growth.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”? And why do we still sometimes hear about pre-seed rounds that look more like a series A in pricing and size? What’s the difference between an angel round and pre-seed round and why do I believe we’ll see more pre-seed rounds taking place in 2024?

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Haystack’s Semil Shah wrote up his POV on what this has all meant for the seed market and one point in particular caught my eye. Semil asserts, Seed-stage valuations have generally been left-unchanged, and I could argue even they’ve gone up since the beginning of 2022. When it’s $2B, you better have gotten your ownership.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

At V1, we have had the privilege to sit on many of our portfolio companies’ boards from (pre-)seed to Series B (and beyond). In a three-part series, we’ll outline the core priorities and strategies for each stage in the journey – starting with what happens once you raise your seed round. Priority = product-market fit .

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View from Seed

AUGUST 20, 2014

One question that I’m often asked is, “How should I think about the composition of my seed round?” In other words, how many investors and what type (angels, seed funds, larger funds, etc.) make an ideal seed fundraise? The One-VC-Led Seed. The Two-VC-Led Seed. Angel Round Led by a Micro VC or Seed Fund.

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

For those following this blog and the seed market over the past decade, you may have noticed that every year, we see increases across the board — more investors, newer funds, and funds that get larger. Much has been written about the fact that traditional seed stage funds have grown in size and dollars under management.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The post Stability AI Raises Seed Round at $1 Billion Value appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 2, 2024

In the prior era of early stage investing, pre-seeds and seeds “fit” into neat buckets slotted in ahead of the neat buckets of series A’s and B’s. So “pre-seeds” can look like $1M on $8M post for certain profiles of founders and companies. Some go pre-seed straight to A.

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David Cohen

MAY 28, 2019

In 2009, coming out of Techstars , SendGrid set out to raise a seed round. The post Here’s SendGrid’s seed round pitch deck appeared first on Hi, I'm David G. The original target was $300,000. They ended up raising $750,000 in that round. Eight years later, they went public at around a $1B valuation.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. « About the Series Seed Documents | Main. Series Seed Financing Documents. Please note, these are the latest versions of the Series Seed Documents.    Series Seed COI (v 2.0). Series Seed IRA (v 2.0). Series Seed IRA (v 2.0).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2013

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 Seeded companies will take longer to raise a next round. The Internet sector is tops for seed deals.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

If you’ve been following my tweets lately, you’ve read some of my quick musings on the state of the seed market this summer. years of investing in the seed stage, I have never seen activity levels like I’m seeing today. Making angel investments, raising small seed funds. In short, in my 6.5 Granted, 6.5

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View from Seed

MARCH 26, 2015

In the last year or so, the debate over the definitions of seed versus pre-seed capital (sometimes called genesis rounds) has exploded. Much digital ink has been spilled about what dollar amount constitutes a pre-seed and how that might affect a startup’s ability to go raise a “normal” seed round from institutional investors.

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View from Seed

JUNE 29, 2016

Recently, I shared a two-part essay on the atomization of seed venture capital rounds. We hope this helps clarify the current reality we’re seeing, while at the same time, empowering entrepreneurs to continue to think far beyond the seed stage as they grow meaningful companies. .

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Version One Ventures

MAY 28, 2021

We are very happy to announce our seed investment into Defined , a programmable data platform for decentralized finance (DeFi). We led the $2.5m round with participation from Mark Cuban, Balaji Srinivasan, Tiny Capital, Compound, Inflection, Portico Ventures, Capital 6, Rasool Rayani, and Kamunting Street Capital.

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