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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Seed Capital Institutional Investors Venture Capital Partner 120

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Case in point, according to CrunchBase, NextView has made only two new seed investments this year in 2018 … the actual number is: eleven. With the atomization of seed and an increasing number of rounds prior to Series A (pre-seed, seed, super-seed, etc.), Inbound partners. What’s going on?

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Seed Stage Stealth Seed Capital Later Stage 201

View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

– Pitch Decks (two styles + walk-throughs from the partners). – Board Decks (two styles + walk-throughs from the partners). – Flowchart: Seed VC Decision Tree (how one seed investor gets to yes or no). – Checklist: Critical to-do’s immediately after raising seed capital.

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Seed Stage Seed Capital Syndicate Syndication 120

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Another thing I noticed was that I was now referring companies that I had invested in at a “pre-seed” (capitalization intentional) stage over to folks who would previously be considered my peer venture funds doing Seed-stage investments. There are a now a handful of funds, that claim to be Pre-Seed funds (K9 included).

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2016

Amy and I watched The Big Short on Tuesday with my partner Jason and his wife Jenn. Instead, I generally like a ten year moving window to process things. ” When I go back a decade, we were just making the decision not to raise another Mobius Venture Capital fund. My partners and I hadn’t yet created Foundry Group.

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Venture Capital Seed Capital Early Stage Partner 70