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Version One turns ten

Version One Ventures

Early stage investing creates the best outcomes if you’re investing in non-obvious opportunities in markets that are early on their S-curve. An investor’s biggest impact comes when he/she believes in a team when no one else does and commits capital when nobody else does. But we wouldn’t want it any other way.

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Thinking About Bodega

Hunter Walker

Startups, especially early stage startups, are in the weird position of simultaneously trying to reduce known risks while embracing new risks. As investors, we hope to help founders see around corners in order to assess and predict outcomes. And that’s the founder-market fit we seek.

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OATV and Indie.vc

Bryce Dot VC

In Fund IV, we are still actively making Tim’s angel investments and allocating a larger percentage of committed capital to them. model as well as making angel investments alongside our friends at more traditional early stage firms. When it comes to OATV and Indie.vc they are the same thing. is the strategy.

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Why VC’s Don’t “Crossover” Invest

Agile VC

But even for healthy VC firms, as a firm grows or shrinks they are typically adding or subtracting LPs in each subsequent fund (still usually a minority of overall committed capital in the fund). For example Acme III might be willing to invest in a Series B or C stage company in Year 4 of the fund (e.g.

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Interview with Mike Brown Jr. of AOL Ventures

The Startup Lawyer

Sure – AOL Ventures is the VC arm of AOL , focused on early stage investing in consumer internet businesses. What stage of startups are you looking at and what do you look for initially? We’re a small fund with $30M of committed capital, so we focus on Seed and Series A opportunities. Not really.