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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman).

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

A follow-up post, titled The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue , on June 5, 2015, explained this further: Pre-Seed is the New Seed. Q: How are most Pre-Seed deals structured? Q: What are some Pre-Seed funds operating today? As far as I can tell, that is the first public use of “pre-seed” as a stage of financing.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. Purpose Ventures’ deal structures are bespoke to each company. . —– Indie.vc which functions similar to a convertible note and revenue share. .

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