The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage. It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step.
View from Seed
APRIL 30, 2015
In many instances, you raise an institutional round to either fulfill a product strategy or go-to-market strategy or you’re increasing sales and marketing hires, so you have better visibility into what needs to happen in the next six, 12, 18 months. NVV: Let’s talk about the seed stage specifically.
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. Later stage investors are using private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Exit Investments”.
Gust
AUGUST 27, 2014
The two sites you mentioned are both secondary listing services, for later stage companies. Most are somewhere in between, focusing primarily on early-stage, high-growth companies with scalable business models. These are typically Internet-enabled, or consumer products, or medical devices.
View from Seed
JUNE 16, 2015
My conviction in investing in a company is a function of my belief in the team, the traction of the company, and how the product/opportunity resonates with me personally. My POV is that every VC has a core product. For NextView specifically, we say that we are a one-product company.
View from Seed
JANUARY 26, 2016
For now, it’s fine to think about pre-seed rounds as relatively small ($750K or less), early (pre-product), and typically followed by a larger round within 12 months ($1M – $3M). Series A investors invested quite early, often before product/market fit. The entire funding progression of startups pushed out to the right.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles. Having said that, there are times when it’s wise for the startup not to work with the parent company…or to hold off until its product is mature enough. Now practically everyone is getting involved in Series A.
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