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Can Pre-Seed Capital Hurt an Entrepreneur’s Chances to Raise Seed from VCs?

View from Seed

In the last year or so, the debate over the definitions of seed versus pre-seed capital (sometimes called genesis rounds) has exploded. Much digital ink has been spilled about what dollar amount constitutes a pre-seed and how that might affect a startup’s ability to go raise a “normal” seed round from institutional investors.

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Micro VC’s and Super Angels Two Years Later – Looking Back and Some Predictions for the Future

Rob Go

Partner Time. One of the pitches of seed investors is that they have a) the relevant experience needed to really help companies and b) are incentivized to spend more time helping founders than the very large funds. Instead, we’ll see most large funds doing a small handful of seeds only when there is very high conviction.