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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

Pre-Seed New businesses, often known as startups, have just entered the very first stage of the investment process. During the pre-seed fundraising stage, investors need a viable business plan to base their investments on. Syndicates Those in charge of a syndicate are called “syndicate leads.”

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ I said we had a lot of deal flow. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. Kushim manages your deal flow and track portfolio performance.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

We have such a deluge of inbound deal flow via our network that we are not investing a lot of energy seeking out additional companies to filter. That said, our experience so far is that these online markets are most useful to identify opportunities to join a syndicate, not to source and lead a new investment.