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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

GrabCAD & Professional Communities. Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.)

Texas 90
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Final Close: The Story Behind NextView's Own Fundraise ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Our portfolio has grown to 15 companies today, the bulk of which is on the US East Coast and roughly half the companies have already progressed from the seed stage to completing Series A rounds. Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way. Congrats Lee as well as Dave and Rob!

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Angel Bootcamp, The Blog Post: A Primer on Angel Investing

View from Seed

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. I find the best angels tend to do great not because they are fixated on making money but because they want to participate in the startup community and be involved in the most exciting projects. Investment Strategy.

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Angel Bootcamp, The Blog Post: A Primer on Angel Investing

View from Seed

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. I find the best angels tend to do great not because they are fixated on making money but because they want to participate in the startup community and be involved in the most exciting projects. Investment Strategy.

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

David Teten

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

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Not Building a Unicorn

Austin Startup

While I work with a few companies in Silicon Valley, the vast majority of my clients are either in Austin or ecosystems that look much more like Austin than SV; “second tier” tech communities. Large funds write larger checks because they lack the mental/resource bandwidth to actively manage a portfolio of smaller investments.