The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
The fundamental objective and aim of seed investment is to assist a company in launching its operations successfully. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses. Some return value must be offered to the investors for startup seed funding to be considered acceptable.
K9 Ventures
JUNE 5, 2015
Low supply of companies with traction drove the valuations and deal sizes up. The risk here is what I refer to as the curse of over-capitalization. Seed stage was super tough. Seed is the New A. The seed round has ballooned. Valuations are rising to match. more traction means it takes longer. The Epilogue.
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Gust
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Turn the question on its head: How could it make sense to lend money to a brand new, seed-stage company with no revenue, no products, and no collateral? (You Advising investors, I would advocate for traditional convertible notes (with a valuation cap) over this new structure. How can this possibly make sense?
Software By Rob
JANUARY 8, 2019
And to do this without the headache of traditional fundraising, loss of control, or the pressure to build a unicorn ($1B valuation) or even raise another round of funding. We don’t have a maximum revenue cut-off, but if you’re generating $150k in annual revenue then you’re probably able to make things work on your own.
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Over the past five years, we’ve witnessed an Atomization of the Seed Stage. Early fundraising is no longer a one-and-done fundraise of a single round of Seed capital subsequently followed by a Series A 12–18 months later. How much total capital has been put into the company since founding. 100K in MRR was cited).
VC Cafe
JULY 5, 2010
A s venture funds struggle to raise money in Israel, seed capital, one of the earliest and riskiest stages of investment, is becoming harder and harder to secure. Our objective is to double, triple or quadruple the valuations of these companies and get them ready for larger investments from VCs or other funding sources.
techcrunch.com
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising. just my 2 cents.
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