SiliconHills

JULY 27, 2012

Then DreamIt Ventures has got an pre-seed stage accelerator program for you. The Philadelphia-based incubator will launch its first accelerator program in Austin, which will kick off in mid-December and run through March. Got a dream for the next big thing? DreamIt Ventures [.].

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

Israeli incubators are predicted to increase their investment volume (but not size) in 2010. That’s according to a survey conducted by the Incubators Technology Forum. In 2009 incubators invested in 81 new ventures. (via TheMarker ). The dissertation will be available on virtualgoodsresearch.com this summer.

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South Africa Product Incubator 90

View from Seed

MARCH 15, 2017

VC evaluation of seed-stage startups can seem arbitrary or imitative at times. Any seed stage company’s strategy is a constant work-in-progress. Most seed stage startups fail, meaning most of our investment decisions won’t result in the Glimmer Of Greatness.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

A New Kind of Venture Firm AutoChrome Autochrome is an inception and seed stage venture capital fund. We invest at the earliest stages in transformative companies that are leveraging technology to move our species forward. home Breaux Capital Breaux and Company is a creative agency and social justice startup incubator.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

I think our POV comes through in this discussion and hopefully it helps any founders decide if we’re the type of seed fund they’d enjoy working with. Some of my favorites from the post: So much capital is coming into the seed stage. There’s no capital gap structurally at the seed stage. – Me!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups, the hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. Super Angels.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Austin Technology Incubator is hiring for these positions, so make sure to apply now. IT & Wireless Incubator “Assistant Director&#. ATI’s Wireless and IT incubators have supported an incredible slate of companies in the recent past – Calxeda , GameSalad , Spredfast , qcue and numerous others.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Incubator Due Diligence 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Super Angels.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. The adage that 9 women cannot incubate a baby in 1 month is apt here. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape. Now in Q2, things are a bit different.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. The adage that 9 women cannot incubate a baby in 1 month is apt here. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape. Now in Q2, things are a bit different.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Super Angels.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

I recently attended a Demo Day for a well-known incubator. If your seed-stage company fits the criteria above, please contact me. I like to analyze data, find relations between variables, extract insights that are sometimes far from obvious or even counterintuitive. For the others, I would be excited to be involved in some form.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

But one day, at night, I decided to just Google NYC incubators. So I have embraced it fully, and though we are still in the early stages (seed stage), it’s the hardest thing I have ever done yet it’s the most fulfilling thing to me. That led to a pleasant discovery?—?my or give you this experience?—?in in one undertaking!

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. → Learn More. Sometimes these loans have a valuation cap and/or a discount.

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Equity San Francisco Technical Review Angel Investor 87

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

Incubators and Accelerators : Incubators and accelerators have to a large extent replaced the funding from friends and family. The incubators and accelerators are investing $15-$50K in a large number of early stage teams (the current YC class has 60+ teams !). Incubator / Accelerator. Friends & Family.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 19, 2011

Incubating and Training for Startups and Small Businesses. Nashville's seed-stage microfund Jumpstart Foundry recently made a pivot to become a full-fledged tech business incubator. There's a pipeline of talent here although echoing what we hear in a lot of places, there's always a need for "more engineers.".

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Nashville Ruby Seed Stage Incubator 161

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 29, 2017

Would you be willing to share your application to [incubator/accelerator] with us so that we can use it as a way to collaboratively discuss what you’ve learned since then?” ” For many accelerators and incubators, demo days kick off a fundraising process for a full round or additional capital based on inbound demand.

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Founder Incubator Seed Stage Lead Investor 71

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

We spend tremendous energy recruiting between 100 and 200 angels and seed-stage investors who may invest in your business. Meng Weng Wong is co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia , which he helped started in 2010 to bring the TechStars model of startup incubation to Southeast Asia. They have first priority.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 26, 2014

We are a bit like an accelerator programme, a bit like an incubator and a bit like a straight early stage fund, yet we are also different to all of these things in crucial ways. We invest in 1-2 companies per quarter that join us for a year long programme, and we invest in late-seed stage companies too.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Instead, it was more of a result of over-funding at the seed stage. There was simply too much money coming in to the seed stage, which increased the supply of companies at the seed stage. The Seed round is larger — closer to and sometimes upwards of $2M. Series C/D is the new Mezzanine.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The Israeli super angel fund is dedicated to invest exclusively in seed-stage startups or apps in Internet, telecommunications and software. The fund was started through a merger between Startup Factory, Yatir Ventures and Plug and Play Tech Center, the shared office complex and company incubator in Silicon Valley.

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Silicon Valley Incubator Italy 114

View from Seed

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Quilt (a NextView portfolio company incubated in our Boston office) recently launched a fully digital life insurance product that approves policies in just 15 minutes. As we’ve said before, as seed-stage investors, we think broadly about these opportunities and the interconnectedness of many of them.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

4 ] Seed Funding Firms Seed firms are like angels in that they invest relatively smallamounts at early stages, but like VCs in that theyre companiesthat do it as a business, rather than individuals making occasionalinvestments on the side. What is an incubator? Thats where the name"incubator" comes from.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

David Teten

JUNE 5, 2015

New York, NY — The Teten Family is proud to announce that we just finalized our investment in a seed-stage startup, temporarily operating under the name “NewBo” or “Peanut”. My mother literally carried this company for 38 weeks in her mobile incubator while I was generating no income. Currently, at 6 lbs.

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Due Diligence Seed Stage Startup Incubator 60

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

One of the things I like least about seed stage venture is the compressed amount of time to get to know a new founder during fundraising.

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Founder Seed Stage Incubator Hiring 114

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative. November 29, 2012.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2017

The investing strategy for K9 stands in stark contrast to most “early-stage” (incubators, accelerators, pre-seed and seed stage) investing. A lot of people assume that The Kennel is an incubator — it is not. And yes, I’m presently 42. At K9 we do the opposite of the volume game.

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Technology LP San Francisco Portfolio 96

Genuine VC

JUNE 22, 2011

We have already incubated one startup in our portfolio, Boundless Learning, and will likely do so again within this fund. Our model at NextView isn’t an incubator, so our space isn’t set up for one.). So rather than coming to an office just to sit in a room by oneself, we wanted a space that fostered interaction by design.

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Seed Stage Boston Incubator Portfolio 123

Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

” The theory is that the number of seed stage Series A deals led by venture capital firms is decreasing, meaning that it will be difficult for startups to raise a new round of financing. At the maturity date, there is a risk that investors may demand repayment.

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Convertible Security Equity Security Preferred Stock 73

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Seed round is larger — closer to and sometimes upwards of $2M. The Series A is now the fourth round of funding for a company — the first is usually friends and family, or an incubator (~$50K), then pre-seed (~$500K), then seed (~$2M), then Series A (~$6M-$15M). A Pre-Seed company certainly hasn’t met the same bar.

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

Looking back on this, in a way, it’s silly; yet, for seed-stage investors and the founders we back, getting companies from seed to Series A is a really important milestone, a milestone I’ve likened to getting into the graduate school of one’s choice.

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Naming Venture Capital Seed Stage Cap Table 60

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When Homebrew launched two years ago, Satya and I knew that smart hardware was going to be important to our Bottom Up Economy thesis but also that neither of us yet had meaningful experience working alongside the best hardware entrepreneurs at the seed stage where we invest.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 25, 2013

I think objectively there are too many seed-stage companies…The good news is, I don’t think it’s a systemic problem.” (at This is the problem at the heart of the incubator model.” (at “The culture of entrepreneurship is spreading, and that’s happening all around the world – and I think that’s a really, really big deal.” (at

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Silicon Valley Seed Stage Lean IP 74

VC Cafe

MARCH 29, 2011

Pontifax is a life sciences fund, with a stake in the ATI and Meytav incubators and a strategic agreement for joint investments with Roche, the pharma giant. Among the total number of deals, there were 24 seed - stage deals, accounting for 32% of the total volume of first-investments.

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Venture Capital Incubator Seed Stage 97

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence. .

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The 2013 Joah didn’t realize he was about to run into the buzzsaw that was being black while fundraising in 2014 and 2015, two of the best years for a seed-stage startup to raise funds in Silicon Valley. I never did find a VC to lead a round of funding for Localeur, but two things happened by the end of 2015.

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