Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2015

PSL, based in Seattle, is a not a VC firm, accelerator, or incubator, but instead is a startup studio, which is a company that creates companies. PSL was announced today and GeekWire’s conference and there’s an extremely comprehensive post explaining how it works at Top Seattle investors raise $12.5M

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Seattle San Francisco Angel Investor Syndicate 70

Version One Ventures

JULY 6, 2016

Seattle-based sales tech company Outreach raised more $17.5 We still like marketplaces (and recently syndicated our marketplace handbook in deck form ), but we’re also looking toward the AI/ML space. We made three new investments this quarter. Portfolio companies in the news. million in Series B funding.

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San Francisco Syndicate Syndication Seattle 104

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Today, TechStars announced that they’ve raised $24 million from a broad syndicate of investors to fund an additional $100,000 for every TechStars company going forward. To date, there are over 75 VCs and angels that are funding TechStars programs in Boulder, Boston, Seattle, and New York.

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Syndicate Syndication Seattle Angel Investor 137

Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2015

Each is roughly invested 1/3rd into companies in Colorado, 1/3rd into companies in the bay area, and 1/3rd into companies in the rest of the US (Boston, NY, Seattle, LA, Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., We are syndication agnostic – we’ll invest with other VCs or invest by ourselves. Each is $225 million.

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Minneapolis Phoenix Portland Syndicate 70

www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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CTO CTO Hire Syndicate Syndication 40

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2016

The inventors of a reusable grocery bag were featured in their local Denver newspaper, which then was syndicated and ended up running in newspapers around the country. Another client was showcased in a Seattle TV segment which caught the eye of a national producer and led to a feature on the Today Show.

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PR Public Relations Denver Syndicate 100

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And if you look elsewhere at places like Seattle you see the same pattern; Microsoft may have been built in Redmond, but Amazon and many of the more recent startups like Zillow, Redfin, Zulily, etc are all in Seattle’s downtown core. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago?

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