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Piggy Rounds Part II: Why Some Large VC Funds Are Doing More Seed Deals

Hunter Walker

These “ piggy rounds ” usually left little room for other institutional investors, in contrast to traditional seed rounds which may include several funds collaborating. Often these funds are attempting to build out a reputation or gain exposure to a new vertical.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

One global institutional investor is investigating setting up a large-scale co-investment vehicle, similar to Correlation Ventures, but focused on private equity transactions. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. This also can be a valuable tool for increasing fund transparency and communicating with LPs.”.

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Gazzang Banks $3.5M Series A

Austin Startup

Austin Ventures was the lead institutional investor, accompanied by a group of smaller individual investors. Gazzang, Inc., the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Beacon technology system , which automatically outbound-solicits a universe of over 10,000 institutional investors, without requiring LPs to register for an online network of funds. .

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A Companies like Gartner, Forrester or eMarketer regularly produce reports about tech trends and verticals. 1) Industry reports.

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The Seed Rounds They Are a-Changin': Three Shifts We’ve Made to Homebrew Investment Model

Hunter Walker

BUT we went to market asserting that Homebrew should take the seed investor Board seat. I should of course note that we’re not overly scientific in our “outcome” math – what we generally do is look at comps for the vertical – SaaS, ecommerce, etc – and just talk through some scenarios among ourselves).

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 11: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

ARD was almost exclusively focused on the East Coast ARD proved that institutional investors, not just family money had an appetite for investing into venture capital firms.