Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

It’s hard to be a great lead investor . VCs take their time precisely for the reason Fred articulates – they play the role of “lead investor.” With angel money being “packaged” and aggregated into large bundles it makes it easier for angels to ask for rights it might not otherwise have.

Syndicate 356

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Early Stage 356

View from Seed

JANUARY 7, 2020

I aggregated each firm’s latest announced fund by home market to get a sense of available lead seed dollars of each market. Not surprisingly, SF leads the other three markets by a wide margin. For these firms, I allocated 40% of the fund dollars to that secondary home market.

New York 207

New York Boston Marketing Aggregator 207

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. So Coats and Kienzle set up Correlation to be a co-investor, not take board seats, and invest quickly—making it easier for lead investors and companies to quickly put a round together.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

For example, “VC will serve as the lead investor up to $400,000; Company would source balance of the round up to $600,000 (so round size would be up to $1,000,000 in the aggregate).”. At the early stage, the founding team often has lots of “interest” lined up waiting for a lead.

Term Sheet 71

Term Sheet Aggregator Lead Investor Early Stage 71

ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2018

The company’s growth is largely thanks to its collaborators – Travelport, its first investor and incubator, lead investor 7 Gate Ventures, and Real Venture. Recent funding is being used to develop its product using predictive booking pattern algorithms and to expand its sales and development teams.

Widget 64

Widget France Canada Aggregator 64

Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 9, 2019

Pro rata rights are relatively standard and non-controversial; however, founders should try to limit such rights solely to “Major Investors” (which is typically defined to include only those investors that will own a substantial number of shares – e.g., a lead investor).

Preferred Stock 56

Preferred Stock Term Sheet Dilution Stock 56