K9 Ventures
JUNE 5, 2015
Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. Seed stage was super tough. Implications for Founders.
Version One Ventures
APRIL 26, 2021
From the start, we have limited ourselves primarily to startups within North America, with a handful of exceptions: Nexus Mutual and Drover (UK), Guesser.com (Spain), and Headout (India). We still look for pre-seed & seed stage opportunities, as we believe this is the stage where we can add the most value.
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thebarefootvc
JANUARY 27, 2014
I think that later stage valuations are frothy (for reasons I explain below) while earlier stage valuations are starting to stabilize from previous highs (with the exception of the superstar serial entrepreneur) - turns out scaling in a sea of competition (both startup and entrenched) is not so easy. Or so it seems.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
There are numerous VCs in Japan, but the landscape is still not nearly as built out as it is in India and China, and has nowhere near the level of Silicon Valley VC influence that those two countries have. In other words, you don’t see Silicon Valley bigwigs in Japan, but they’re all over India and China.
K9 Ventures
OCTOBER 12, 2015
This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). This means more noise in the system for seed stage investors.
Steve Blank
APRIL 13, 2013
In Beijing we hadn’t seen air so badly polluted since we had been in Agra in India in the winter where I swear there was a day you could wave your hand in front of you and see traces of it in the air (and their excuse was they burn dung for heat.). Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments.
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 20, 2011
He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. You can't tell what the company does.
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