ReadWriteStart
MAY 22, 2023
Europe has also lagged behind the US in venture to finance. The Challenge of Talent and Funding FOV Ventures, the first venture capital firm in Europe to invest exclusively in early-stage Metaverse companies, has announced €25 million in funding for early-stage or seed-stage startups.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 15, 2014
Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. As Rob Go wrote , board decks and board meetings can waste loads of time at the seed stage.
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Mucker Lab
AUGUST 27, 2014
My partner Erik Rannala has had a similar experience, having worked as a VC at Harrison Metal before moving down to LA to co-found our seed stage venture firm. By the time the venture financing topic is broached, they already have significant traction for their business. That number in the Valley might be closer to 10%.
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. Investors want to know the critical thinking behind the inputs and value-drivers of the business, and how that results in the outputs on the critical metrics and finances.
Haystack
FEBRUARY 17, 2019
And this week, the company announced it had raised a super-sized $20M Series A financing co-led by Kent Bennett from Bessemer Venture Partners and also Goldman Sachs. On the other hand, solid businesses like SecondMeasure which have found product-market fit within the seed stage have more leverage on when to take financing and from what firm.
View from Seed
JUNE 16, 2015
And that product is a highly engaged seed-stage investment where we are usually the lead or co-lead in a round and will often take a board seat. In terms of other metrics, some ideas: At least 6 months of cohort data that shows solid retention over time and signals a strong LTV relative to CAC.
Gust
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) was spun out, and the valuation was set by that financing round.
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