View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” What Are Your Valuation Expectations? That being said, there are benefits to learning from past reflections — especially as we near national re-opening, and the theoretical “end” of the pandemic. ” (Rob Go). ” (Lee Hower).

Seed Stage 177

Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Look out for more products that aggregate and organize existing accounts and automatically scrub your inboxes, feeds and social media connections. Valuations Aren’t Going Away. Facebook’s IPO was a tell-tale sign that startup valuations are very unpredictable and susceptible to major changes. Logan Lenz , Endagon.

API 157

API Social Media Mobile Valuation 157

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

However, this does not mean that investors don’t have a significant effect on valuations and M&A). But the right mentors significantly influence a company’s performance and ability to raise money. Solo founders take 3.6x longer to reach scale stage compared to a founding team of 2 and they are 2.3x less likely to pivot.

Silicon Valley 207

Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup 207

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

On the back of this momentum, Melio today announced a $110m funding round, rocketing the company to a valuation of $1.3b Israel produced three public cloud companies - Wix, Jfrog and Varonis - representing an aggregated market cap of more than $25b, c. just months after it came out of stealth.

B2B 62

B2B Cloud Europe 62

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Post-money valuation probably no higher than $12M (2). Pre-money valuation was approx. Pre-money valuation was approx.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. However, this does not mean that investors don’t have a significant effect on valuations and M&A). Hmm, now I’m getting intrigued. Solo founders take 3.6x

Technical Cofounder 333

Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 333

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

At the time, this is last quarter and the stock market has trended upwards nicely since then (a potential leading indicator of private tech valuations), we all agreed venture portfolios were probably still 25-40% overvalued. Valuations.

Portfolio 98

Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 98

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

” This past September, the company raised $130 million in their Series D round , which skyrocketed Lightricks’s valuation to $1.8 Link in Bio allows users to create beautiful microsites to aggregate their content and send their audience to their most important links.

Venture Capital 167

Venture Capital Bootstrapping Valuation Social Media 167

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The reports showcase raw data, analytics, visualizations, and benchmarking statistics on the company from dozens of sources, including team, intellectual property, technology, product, financial, banking, marketing, customer, risk, valuation, and investment information.”. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 131

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

ithacaVC

JANUARY 24, 2013

One interesting point that comes up a lot is how to factor the convertible debt into the premoney valuation of the Series A round. 62,000 of convertible debt outstanding with $13,700 of aggregate interest accumulated, which also converts as well in the qualifying round. . I am going to ignore any valuation cap feature.

Valuation 53

Valuation Balance Sheet Option Pool Dilution 53

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. For these firms, I allocated 40% of the fund dollars to that secondary home market. Not surprisingly, SF leads the other three markets by a wide margin.

New York 207

New York Boston Marketing Aggregator 207

Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community? And the results were pretty interesting, especially as they clustered with meaningful overlap among companies. When we took the poll itself, one founder said: “This is a great idea.

Early Stage 246

Early Stage Boston Portfolio Silicon Valley 246

Gust

APRIL 30, 2014

Having now invested in over 85 startups, and finding that my personal metrics are very similar to aggregated industry ones, it is clear that (a) there is little to no correlation between my home runs and my personal favorites, and (b) angel investing done correctly really *can* produce a consistent IRR in the 25%-30% range.

Angel Investor 148

Angel Investor IRR Due Diligence Aggregator 148

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

As evidence that it does work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator graduates at $14.4 An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need. billion, with the total amount raised topping $2 billion.

Incubator 247

Incubator Silicon Valley Startup Small Business Administration 247

Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

As a consequence, SaaS public multiples and private company valuations are at an all time high, and the pace of cloud innovation is accelerating. The aggregate value of the 67 public cloud companies have surpassed $1T in February 2020 to reach $1.4T at the time of this post.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Valuation 71

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78 For that reason, I am a strong proponent of incubators that screen prospective clients carefully, selecting only the best ones, and track whether they can handle responsibilities, like paying the rent.

Incubator 215

Incubator Entrepreneur New York City Silicon Valley 215

Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

At this point it’s all paper valuation because the stock isn’t liquid so achieving an outcome is a function of executing on the business to achieve a next round of funding or selling it. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage.

Lean 40

Lean Early Stage Valuation Startup 40

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

To quantify some of this, CB Insights has released a report covering valuation multiples for both M&A and venture financing for Daily Deal startups. It's not a pretty picture as valuation multiples both price per subscriber & price per voucher are dropping quickly.

Valuation 124

Valuation Aggregator Acquisition Differentiation 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

To convince you it can work, SiteBoat recently aggregated the combined valuation of the top 21 companies graduated by YCombinator at $4.7 All startups are expected to “graduate” in a timely fashion to stand on their own two feet. However, if you are looking for an incubator for “free” money and services, you should think again.

Incubator 234

Incubator New York City Silicon Valley Startup 234

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. Never, ever, choose your investors based on valuation. Alignment of business objectives and personal relationships means tons more than valuation. 10M post-money valuation = $100M target.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Yes, there are intermittent points of feedback along the way, like valuation marks from subsequent rounds of financing. Building a venture capital firm isn’t about continuing to scale talent aggregation over time like most businesses, rather it’s about having a consistent right amount of talent and scaling AUM over time.

Venture Capital 204

Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Underwriters realized that as long as the public was happy snapping up shares, they could make huge profits on the inflated valuations (regardless of whether or not the company should have ever been public.) The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 1, 2012

between them, making the aggregate exit value of these acqui-hires 4.2x, which tells us that if the investors on average had a 24% stake they would have broken even on these deals. Firstly – can investors make a decent return on businesses that are acquired for their talent? The indications from this limited data sample are ‘probably not’.

San Francisco 110

San Francisco Hiring Liquidation Preference Aggregator 110

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments. anecdotes.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Over the next two weeks, I set out to build my own Mattermark / CBInsights by aggregating the APIs of Crunchbase, AngelList, and Twitter, as well as any other relevant datasets I could get access to. If we define “success” as a company with a valuation of $1B, then our sample is skewed extremely heavily to failure.

Seed Stage 127

Seed Stage Later Stage Algorithm API 127

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Much of the valuations around the consumer web are rationalizing, and because of that, investors are once again focused on understanding business models. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.)

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Well it’s not clear that media businesses, in aggregate, are inherently more valuable than e-commerce or premium services companies in aggregate [see Note 1 below regarding categorization]. Why are media businesses so valuable?

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the case of an early-stage startup that hasn’t issued preferred stock yet, the debt converts into stock of the acquiring company (if it’s a stock deal) at a valuation subject to a cap. Some sort of conversion does occur. Some sort of conversion does occur. If it’s not a stock deal, then one normally sees one of the above scenarios.

Conversion 96

Conversion Sales Later Stage Preferred Stock 96

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 6, 2016

When I look in my traffic sources now it’s all Twitter, Facebook, Google and aggregators like Mattermark, channels where posting daily makes much less of a difference. Next up will be some thoughts on mutual funds investing in startups and their impact on valuations and the VC industry. But the world has changed.

Equity 60

Equity Aggregator Valuation Distribution 60

Growthink Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

Investors interested in aggregating positions in Disruptive Technology Companies at their most opportune moments: after the highly unpredictable Startup stage, but before they become widely known and priced to market. Who Should Attend I have designed the webinar with two main audiences in mind: 1.

Venture Capital 48

Venture Capital Valuation Aggregator Business Model 48

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Entry valuations for these teams were high, often bid up by the interest in the sector (and scarcity of talent). Many teams, while discussing VC investment, were acquired by larger companies for their asking valuations. Some of the smartest fledgling teams have been acquired by Google, Apple, Uber and Facebook over the past few years.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

ithacaVC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In “VC world” Rule 409A is best known for providing a safe harbor for private company valuations, and in particular the setting of strike prices for employee stock options. If the company conducts an outside independent valuation, then, under 409A, the burden is on the IRS to prove that the valuation was not reasonable (i.e.,

Liquidation Preference 49

Liquidation Preference Common Stock Stock Options Valuation 49

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2016

‘I’m asking for $85,000 for 15% of my company’, so what’s the valuation of your company, be assured even before you do the math, the sharks would have done it for you. Having a well thought out product would go a long way in securing an investment. Do the Math.

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Startup SEC India 100

Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78 For that reason, I am a strong proponent of incubators that screen prospective clients carefully, selecting only the best ones, and track whether they can handle responsibilities, like paying the rent.

Incubator 147

Incubator Entrepreneur New York City Silicon Valley 147

Hippoland

MARCH 5, 2017

In other words, say you’re looking to close $500k, you will need enough serious investors such that should they all invest, they would invest approximately $1m in aggregate. Also, if you get a term sheet with a valuation that is much lower than you’d hoped / anticipated, this is not the end of the world.

Term Sheet 48

Term Sheet Valuation Later Stage Aggregator 48