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Over the past month, I’ve spent a lot of time in NYC, Toronto, and Ottawa for board meetings, conferences, meetings with our founders, re-connecting with co-investors, and meeting new entrepreneurs. The Bay Area is home to smart and strategic investors that contribute far more than just dollars. Just a few years ago, if you wanted to do something big, you needed to go to Silicon Valley. MORE
I’m stoked that Appear Here , brainchild of Ross Bailey and one of our portfolio companies has raised £1m in funding from a range of strong investors. MORE
The topic of &# strategic&# investors came up. And I had 2 “strategic&# investors in my first company. What is a “strategic&# investor and why do you keep putting the word “strategic&# in quotes? They are strategic with no quotes. MORE
The company is currently raising funding from a number of strategic investors and is looking to secure 1 million euros or more to accelerate growth. MORE
This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). I’ve been asked if our investors balked at the idea of a socially-responsible, triple-bottom line taco shop? MORE
Some “strategic investors” have rules that they can’t sit on board seats. It has always surprised me that founders were so quick to fight over how many board members there were and so quick to agree to have as many board observers as people wanted. MORE
It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors. MORE
Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link. MORE
Connect with local investors. While it is certainly true that the lion’s share of venture capital activity takes place in a handful of major locations, almost every large city has a local investor community. Be strategic. by Chris Sloan of Baker Donelson. MORE
I call this collecting logos because it seems that having fancy brands to brag about trumps the logic of maximizing the value of your investor. If the deal has just one investor, for example, there’s absolutely no hiding for the investor if the company fails. MORE
A find many board meetings highly unproductive in that they are often just a date in the calendar where management is set to update its investors and other board members of its performance over the past time period. Sometimes it’s because you have strategic investors. Meetings. MORE
If you are looking for a last minute holiday gift for your favorite entrepreneur (or lawyer, VC, or angel investor), we’ve got you covered. A section on Corporate Venture Capital and Strategic Investors. MORE
Not having a lead investor in your seed round can make it tougher to pull together a bridge round or follow-on financing down the road, since no single investor feels in charge or vested in your success. Do your homework on potential investors. You’ll increase your chances of getting funded beyond the seed round if you take money from VCs that are known to be patient investors and have enough funds reserved for follow-on investments. MORE
The company reported that an undisclosed strategic investor led the round and Foundry Group of Boulder, Colo. Spanning Cloud Apps has closed on $6 million in Series B funding. The Austin-based company makes backup software for Google Apps. also participated. Since its founding in 2010, Spanning Cloud Apps has raised $9 million. “We’ve spent the [.] The post Spanning Cloud Apps Raises $6 Million appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Technology MORE
You have a “strategic investor&# who wants to invest in your B round as long as a financial investor will lead. Your A round investors are not stepping up. - This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. MORE
Previous Celeno investors Pitango Venture Capital , Greylock Partners , Miven Venture Partners, and Cisco Systems Inc. Previous investors have included: former eBay chairman Jeffrey Skoll through Capricorn Management; Zohar Gilon; Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers before its collapse. MORE
As small companies, neither startup could afford to extend their product alone, but through creative leadership, we were able to negotiate a win-win strategic partnership for a joint product. Competitors can become strategic investors or merger candidates. MORE
Mackaronis, who also has worked on the other side of the fence as an investor/trader, sees it all in simple terms: “I guess you could say that I like a challenge” he says. Raising money that is necessary could take years if you don’t do it strategically and the right way. MORE
When raising money, you'll learn that some investors are interested in your venture, and others aren't. You generally are going to have a really tough time changing the minds of investors who initially are not interested in you. Investors can't invest in what they don't understand. MORE
In recent years we’ve seen more and more corporations become more active or establish strategic VC arms. A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle. MORE
These founders have raised hundreds of millions of dollars from top VCs, celebs and strategic investors – maybe their advice helps YOU land the big deal. Lunch or coffee with me and Satya. Money goes to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. . Auction ends May 31st. MORE
Or when something happens that makes an investor think this company is about to break out. It’s human nature for investors to want to buy into a fast growing future, proven by some event in the immediate past. They will be immune to the disinterest shown by financial investors. MORE
The first one relates to the most important investor…you, the founder(s)! You benefit from the capital and investors benefit from a nice discount at conversion, usually in the range of 20 percent. The right investors can fill two gaps, the money gap and the knowledge gap. MORE
Israeli startup Siklu Wireless Communications has raised a series B round of $19 million led by new investors Amiti Ventures , Qualcomm Ventures and joined by all existing investors: DFJ- Tamir Fishman Ventures , Evergreen Venture Partners and Argonaut Private Equity. Another strategic investor (CVC) joined the round but remained undisclosed. In the official announcement , the new investors explained their fascination with Siklu. MORE
My daily work consists of connecting innovative A round startups with potential investors or strategic partners. Yet this is the time when you will be most in demand by investors. Will a strategic player acquire you because they need your solution? MORE
Banks are particularly helpful with raising money from “strategic&# investors, which often means corporate investors such as Intuit, SAP, AMD, Salesforce.com and the like. MORE
While there are less corporate investors today, there are also less VCs. However, the deals that they are doing need to be more strategic and less opportunistic. This does not mean that a company looking for funding will get a strategic partnership before a financing. One of the questions I was asked today was how an early stage company can make a strategic investment successful. Go in with your eyes wide open-what is strategic for you may be tactical for your partner. MORE
That''s when Marc offered to be the sole investor in the fund--putting up the whole $15 million. So, unfortunately for everyone else, including my existing investors in Fund I, there is no opportunity for anyone else to invest in my second fund. MORE
We have Angellist and it’s hyper transparency engine for seed investing and the "Great Unshackling of the Angel Investor". The other day I got a call from Scott Kirstner at the Boston Globe answering: “what happens to all these incubators entrepreneurs after Demo Day”. The short answer: chaos. MORE
The round was led by prior investor BlueRun Ventures which valued the company between $90 million and $100 million. New investors joined as well, including Magma Venture Partners and Vertex, together with Qualcomm Ventures who joined as new strategic investors. MORE
This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). I’ve been asked if our investors balked at the idea of a socially-responsible, triple-bottom line taco shop? MORE
Given the popularity of mobile devices and the apps that make them great, venture capital investors are chomping at the bit to get a piece of the pie. Notable recent exits that have caught the interest from strategic investors include: Facebook’s $85M acquisition of Parse; and. MORE
This round included investment by existing investors and an undisclosed strategic investor. NextIO, the pioneer in I/O consolidation and next-generation networking solutions, today announced it has closed a Series F funding round of $12.3 million. NextIO, which demonstrated significant growth in 2011, will use the new funds to further expand sales and marketing efforts and to further expand NextIO’s family of I/O consolidation solutions. MORE
Montgomery believes there will be 50 IPOs in 2010 as there is pent-up supply and a higher risk tolerance amongst institutional public investors harmonizing at 40 deals / year for the 3 years starting in 2011. MORE
Sources of Capital for Startup Entrepreneurs – The primary sources of cash for new companies are (1) self (the entrepreneurs’ resources), (2) government grants, (3) friends and family, (4) angel investors and Super Angels , (5) venture capitalists and (6) strategic investors. Strategic investors tend to be later stage sources, and will not be addressed here. MORE
The round B investors are leading innovators in creating the next-generation entertainment experience, across platforms and devices. A s TV’s gradually get connected to the Internet, there is an increasing appetite for smart content recommendation. MORE
Strategic Investors ?—?This In some instances strategic investors prefer not to take board seats as it might be their corporate policy. In other situations they might be writing smaller checks but want to be present at board meetings for strategic rationale. There are also times where strategic investors only get a board observer seat because YOU requested it due to the sensitive nature of working with somebody in the industry. MORE
As we approach Homebrew’s one year anniversary we’ll do a smaller scale meeting with our investors in San Francisco. strategic investors (including corporates). traditional institutional LPs such as fund of funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds ( our investors ). MORE
The first scenario is where an investor puts in money but not enough for them to justify taking a board seat. That’s what “information rights&# are for and you can promise the investor to meet 1-on-1 on a quarterly basis. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. MORE
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (Jeremy Liew)(lead), with existing investors: U.S. Investors: Greylock (Asheem Chandna) (lead), LightSpeed (Ravi Mhatre) (lead). Investors: Google Ventures. I believe that “strategic&# money is an oxymoron. MORE
How you talk about valuation will of course depend on how well your business is performing and how much demand you have from other investors. Are your existing investors participating in this round? If it becomes sensitive between a new investors needs and previous investors?—?I’m MORE
Current investor Discovery Inc. led the round of funding, which also included participation from existing investors Causeway Media Partners, LP, Fertitta Capital, and DCM Ventures, as well as strategic investors World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. MORE
Intel Capital Pitango Venture Capital , Battery Ventures Micron Technologies and other strategic investors have invested $76 million in the company to date. Apple is in talks to acquire Israeli flash maker Anobit for a rumored $400-$500 million, according to a report by Calcalist. MORE
I can''t remember if this was the first or second financing, 2007 or 2008, but we''d been out talking to various financial and strategic investors for a few months explaining the story and model. One of those investors was someone we had previous close relationships with and one who potentially could be strategically relevant and important to our business; we assumed we''d get a warm reception there, which we did. MORE
Strategic Investors Related Topics This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 1, 2015
That''s when Marc offered to be the sole investor in the fund--putting up the whole $15 million. So, unfortunately for everyone else, including my existing investors in Fund I, there is no opportunity for anyone else to invest in my second fund.
BeyondVC
NOVEMBER 12, 2003
While there are less corporate investors today, there are also less VCs. However, the deals that they are doing need to be more strategic and less opportunistic. This does not mean that a company looking for funding will get a strategic partnership before a financing. One of the questions I was asked today was how an early stage company can make a strategic investment successful. Go in with your eyes wide open-what is strategic for you may be tactical for your partner.
SiliconHills
JUNE 4, 2019
Current investor Discovery Inc. led the round of funding, which also included participation from existing investors Causeway Media Partners, LP, Fertitta Capital, and DCM Ventures, as well as strategic investors World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
View from Seed
JANUARY 11, 2017
In recent years we’ve seen more and more corporations become more active or establish strategic VC arms. A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
Strategic Investors ?—?This In some instances strategic investors prefer not to take board seats as it might be their corporate policy. In other situations they might be writing smaller checks but want to be present at board meetings for strategic rationale. There are also times where strategic investors only get a board observer seat because YOU requested it due to the sensitive nature of working with somebody in the industry.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 19, 2016
If you are looking for a last minute holiday gift for your favorite entrepreneur (or lawyer, VC, or angel investor), we’ve got you covered. A section on Corporate Venture Capital and Strategic Investors.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Connect with local investors. While it is certainly true that the lion’s share of venture capital activity takes place in a handful of major locations, almost every large city has a local investor community. Be strategic. by Chris Sloan of Baker Donelson.
SiliconHills
MARCH 20, 2013
The company reported that an undisclosed strategic investor led the round and Foundry Group of Boulder, Colo. Spanning Cloud Apps has closed on $6 million in Series B funding. The Austin-based company makes backup software for Google Apps. also participated. Since its founding in 2010, Spanning Cloud Apps has raised $9 million. “We’ve spent the [.] The post Spanning Cloud Apps Raises $6 Million appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Technology
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 3, 2009
The topic of &# strategic&# investors came up. And I had 2 “strategic&# investors in my first company. What is a “strategic&# investor and why do you keep putting the word “strategic&# in quotes? They are strategic with no quotes.
Berkonomics
OCTOBER 22, 2015
Or when something happens that makes an investor think this company is about to break out. It’s human nature for investors to want to buy into a fast growing future, proven by some event in the immediate past. They will be immune to the disinterest shown by financial investors.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
The first one relates to the most important investor…you, the founder(s)! You benefit from the capital and investors benefit from a nice discount at conversion, usually in the range of 20 percent. The right investors can fill two gaps, the money gap and the knowledge gap.
The Equity Kicker
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
I’m stoked that Appear Here , brainchild of Ross Bailey and one of our portfolio companies has raised £1m in funding from a range of strong investors.
Austin Startup
MAY 21, 2012
This round included investment by existing investors and an undisclosed strategic investor. NextIO, the pioneer in I/O consolidation and next-generation networking solutions, today announced it has closed a Series F funding round of $12.3 million. NextIO, which demonstrated significant growth in 2011, will use the new funds to further expand sales and marketing efforts and to further expand NextIO’s family of I/O consolidation solutions.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
I call this collecting logos because it seems that having fancy brands to brag about trumps the logic of maximizing the value of your investor. If the deal has just one investor, for example, there’s absolutely no hiding for the investor if the company fails.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 1, 2014
As small companies, neither startup could afford to extend their product alone, but through creative leadership, we were able to negotiate a win-win strategic partnership for a joint product. Competitors can become strategic investors or merger candidates.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 14, 2009
The first scenario is where an investor puts in money but not enough for them to justify taking a board seat. That’s what “information rights&# are for and you can promise the investor to meet 1-on-1 on a quarterly basis. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 25, 2018
Mackaronis, who also has worked on the other side of the fence as an investor/trader, sees it all in simple terms: “I guess you could say that I like a challenge” he says. Raising money that is necessary could take years if you don’t do it strategically and the right way.
Business Plan Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
Given the popularity of mobile devices and the apps that make them great, venture capital investors are chomping at the bit to get a piece of the pie. Notable recent exits that have caught the interest from strategic investors include: Facebook’s $85M acquisition of Parse; and.
Gust
DECEMBER 1, 2011
Sources of Capital for Startup Entrepreneurs – The primary sources of cash for new companies are (1) self (the entrepreneurs’ resources), (2) government grants, (3) friends and family, (4) angel investors and Super Angels , (5) venture capitalists and (6) strategic investors. Strategic investors tend to be later stage sources, and will not be addressed here.
Hunter Walker
APRIL 4, 2014
As we approach Homebrew’s one year anniversary we’ll do a smaller scale meeting with our investors in San Francisco. strategic investors (including corporates). traditional institutional LPs such as fund of funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds ( our investors ).
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 16, 2012
Some “strategic investors” have rules that they can’t sit on board seats. It has always surprised me that founders were so quick to fight over how many board members there were and so quick to agree to have as many board observers as people wanted.
VC Cafe
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Intel Capital Pitango Venture Capital , Battery Ventures Micron Technologies and other strategic investors have invested $76 million in the company to date. Apple is in talks to acquire Israeli flash maker Anobit for a rumored $400-$500 million, according to a report by Calcalist.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 30, 2018
How you talk about valuation will of course depend on how well your business is performing and how much demand you have from other investors. Are your existing investors participating in this round? If it becomes sensitive between a new investors needs and previous investors?—?I’m
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 18, 2011
Israeli startup Siklu Wireless Communications has raised a series B round of $19 million led by new investors Amiti Ventures , Qualcomm Ventures and joined by all existing investors: DFJ- Tamir Fishman Ventures , Evergreen Venture Partners and Argonaut Private Equity. Another strategic investor (CVC) joined the round but remained undisclosed. In the official announcement , the new investors explained their fascination with Siklu.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2010
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (Jeremy Liew)(lead), with existing investors: U.S. Investors: Greylock (Asheem Chandna) (lead), LightSpeed (Ravi Mhatre) (lead). Investors: Google Ventures. I believe that “strategic&# money is an oxymoron.
Version One Ventures
MAY 24, 2016
Over the past month, I’ve spent a lot of time in NYC, Toronto, and Ottawa for board meetings, conferences, meetings with our founders, re-connecting with co-investors, and meeting new entrepreneurs. The Bay Area is home to smart and strategic investors that contribute far more than just dollars. Just a few years ago, if you wanted to do something big, you needed to go to Silicon Valley.
VC Cafe
DECEMBER 8, 2010
The round was led by prior investor BlueRun Ventures which valued the company between $90 million and $100 million. New investors joined as well, including Magma Venture Partners and Vertex, together with Qualcomm Ventures who joined as new strategic investors.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 6, 2011
The round B investors are leading innovators in creating the next-generation entertainment experience, across platforms and devices. A s TV’s gradually get connected to the Internet, there is an increasing appetite for smart content recommendation.
Berkonomics
JUNE 8, 2017
It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. You will realize much more from the ultimate sale of your business even if at a considerably lower price than if splitting the proceeds with investors.
The Next Web
APRIL 22, 2013
The company is currently raising funding from a number of strategic investors and is looking to secure 1 million euros or more to accelerate growth.
Hunter Walker
JUNE 7, 2016
This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). I’ve been asked if our investors balked at the idea of a socially-responsible, triple-bottom line taco shop?
Hunter Walker
JUNE 7, 2016
This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). I’ve been asked if our investors balked at the idea of a socially-responsible, triple-bottom line taco shop?
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 24, 2016
A find many board meetings highly unproductive in that they are often just a date in the calendar where management is set to update its investors and other board members of its performance over the past time period. Sometimes it’s because you have strategic investors. Meetings.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 18, 2010
Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
You have a “strategic investor&# who wants to invest in your B round as long as a financial investor will lead. Your A round investors are not stepping up. - This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital.
VC Cafe
NOVEMBER 28, 2010
Previous Celeno investors Pitango Venture Capital , Greylock Partners , Miven Venture Partners, and Cisco Systems Inc. Previous investors have included: former eBay chairman Jeffrey Skoll through Capricorn Management; Zohar Gilon; Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers before its collapse.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 21, 2009
Montgomery believes there will be 50 IPOs in 2010 as there is pent-up supply and a higher risk tolerance amongst institutional public investors harmonizing at 40 deals / year for the 3 years starting in 2011.
Version One Ventures
JANUARY 28, 2013
Not having a lead investor in your seed round can make it tougher to pull together a bridge round or follow-on financing down the road, since no single investor feels in charge or vested in your success. Do your homework on potential investors. You’ll increase your chances of getting funded beyond the seed round if you take money from VCs that are known to be patient investors and have enough funds reserved for follow-on investments.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2010
Banks are particularly helpful with raising money from “strategic&# investors, which often means corporate investors such as Intuit, SAP, AMD, Salesforce.com and the like.
Fred Destin
OCTOBER 9, 2013
We have Angellist and it’s hyper transparency engine for seed investing and the "Great Unshackling of the Angel Investor". The other day I got a call from Scott Kirstner at the Boston Globe answering: “what happens to all these incubators entrepreneurs after Demo Day”. The short answer: chaos.
The Next Web
APRIL 6, 2013
My daily work consists of connecting innovative A round startups with potential investors or strategic partners. Yet this is the time when you will be most in demand by investors. Will a strategic player acquire you because they need your solution?
Growthink Blog
OCTOBER 15, 2010
When raising money, you'll learn that some investors are interested in your venture, and others aren't. You generally are going to have a really tough time changing the minds of investors who initially are not interested in you. Investors can't invest in what they don't understand.
aweissman.com
MARCH 28, 2014
I can''t remember if this was the first or second financing, 2007 or 2008, but we''d been out talking to various financial and strategic investors for a few months explaining the story and model. One of those investors was someone we had previous close relationships with and one who potentially could be strategically relevant and important to our business; we assumed we''d get a warm reception there, which we did.
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