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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally.

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Endings and Beginnings

VC Adventure

This is exactly what we envisioned when we started Foundry in 2006, and today marks the public acknowledgment that, with the 2022 fund, we’re ready to stop adding new funds to the mix. I had no idea in 2006, when we started Foundry Group, what this journey would be like.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

extension round closed April 2006. round closed May 2006. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm. Led by Sequoia with participation by General Catalyst. Series C Preferred.

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A VC’s take on the Season 5 premier of Sharktank

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The product was introduced in 2006 and created a whole new category of easy to use video cameras. But eventually two syndicates emerged. Both syndicates competed on the distribution and marketing that they could bring to the table. One example of this was the Flip video camera.

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What Are Pre-Seed Rounds and Why Do They Exist?

View from Seed

For reference, First Round Capital and Softech were founded in 2004 (although they were less institutional early on), Floodgate in 2006, Harrison Metal in 2008, etc. This has allowed these firms to invest larger amounts at the later end of the seed spectrum, and some have even started to lead or syndicate Series A rounds with others.

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

Saturday, December 09, 2006. Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), ▼ 2006. (7). Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Paris, November 1998.

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How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC

Feld Thoughts

In addition, I’ve made many seed investments as an angel investor in two time periods,1994-1996 and 2006-2007, and seen many more through my involvement as a co-founder of TechStars. ?Our At Foundry Group, we describe ourselves as being “syndication agnostic&#. each are equally happy situations.)