Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2014

We recently funded Blinkfire Analytics using our FG Angels Syndicate. So, we were psyched he was willing to do an FG Angels Syndicate with us. When it was oversubscribed they kept their syndicate commitment, but offered a much bigger investment outside the syndicate. I asked him if I could post them – he said yes.

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Syndicate Syndication Entrepreneur Cap Table 148

VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates - enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). It’s a great idea and at Foundry we quickly decided it would be an interesting experiment to form our own syndicate.

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Syndicate Syndication Startup Lead Investor 92

Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

Term-driving investor approach – An entrepreneur finds a lead (quasi-)institutional venture investor to price and set the structure/dynamics of the round, working together to bring in additional syndicate partners (either/both other funds and individual angels). There is some correlation here, but not complete alignment, to check size (i.e.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Venture Capital 207

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

So far most of the top funded AngelList Syndicates look, well, not surprising. Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Early Stage 105

David Teten

MAY 15, 2019

The post Invite to PEVCTech June 17 Event: Private Markets Syndication Solutions appeared first on David Teten. Who: Members of PEVCTech.com, specifically investors in private companies who want to use technology to make better investments. If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.

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Syndicate Syndication Private Equity Marketing 60

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

Although EquityZen is primarily an online marketplace for secondary shares in private companies, they also offer syndicated primary investments. This is primarily an advantage for the underlying investor in the company, not the VC leading the syndicate. . Market Insight. Alpha pursues a similar model. Cross-posted on PEHub.

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Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors Cofounder 60

Hunter Walker

APRIL 10, 2014

But he’s raised the largest syndicate on AngelList , turning himself effectively into a one-man fund for, if not the masses, at least the 270 people who have already committed nearly $3.4m AngelList syndicate has surprised some people, you’ve been angel investing for quite a while, right? penchina#syndicate.

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Syndicate Syndication Hiring Entrepreneur 131

VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates – enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). It’s a great idea and at Foundry we quickly decided it would be an interesting experiment to form our own syndicate.

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Syndicate Syndication Startup Lead Investor 48

Rob Go

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I was chatting with Nick Chirls from Betaworks recently and we talked a bit about Angelist syndicates and the incentives surrounding it. Betaworks was one of the first investors to use Syndicates on the platform in their investment with Estimote (a really cool company, BTW). Now let’s say I’m an angelist syndicator.

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Syndicate Syndication Early Stage Portfolio 68

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Mass Relevance today announced that it has been selected by Twitter (blog post) as the first curation partner officially licensed to re-syndicate Twitter content. Through this partnership, companies will be able to move beyond engagement and create new revenue streams around curated and integrated experiences into TV, [.].

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Syndicate Syndication Partner Naming 85

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Look for a warm introduction to make this work. Apply to local angel investor groups.

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Startup Equity Angel Investor Venture Capital 269

View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

Historically, seed rounds were syndicated among several different firms. Today, we are seeing less syndication of seed rounds and sharper elbows among many of the funds in the market. Instead of broadly syndicated rounds, we are seeing much more competition for fewer slots. Why Is Seed Investing Becoming More Sharp Elbowed?

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Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Founder 267

Rob Go

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Which is why I’m pretty psyched about Angelist syndicates, especially in relation to the Boston startup community. Enter Angelist Syndicates. Boston is an incredibly rich ecosystem in almost all regards. And this will probably be true for quite a few other ecosystems as well.'

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Syndicate Syndication Boston Startup 64

YFS Magazine

MAY 28, 2018

Every business wants more sales, it’s as simple as that. Yet the million-dollar question is, “How do we get there?” Demand generation is the answer.

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Syndicate Syndication Demand Sales 94

View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Pros: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections. Having someone who the founder or founding team has worked with before can be a good validator to other syndicate investors and future investors that they all work well together.

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Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Entrepreneur 334

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

There are many additional variables that the inexperienced marketer may not even think to consider: competition and positioning strategies, budgeting, match types, search and content syndication, and ad copy testing, as well developing the best ad wording and layouts. Tracking and performance reporting.

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Search Engineer PPC SEO 379

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2022

Sometimes, given your syndicate configuration, you have no choice but to take structure in a new round. and a bunch of other things. But if you can do a clean financing at a lower price, I always think that’s a better option for everyone (founders, employees, and existing investors.).

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Down Round Ratchet Valuation Liquidation Preference 160

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Catapulted into a web of murder and intrigue involving the Chinese Ministry of State Security, a powerful Asian crime syndicate, the CIA, and a beautiful Thai princess, Samira and Kit don’t know who they can trust.

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Non-Compete Thailand Syndicate Syndication 143

Rob Go

MARCH 5, 2012

One area of fundraising that is not that straightforward is how to put together a syndicate of investors for your seed round. Here are a couple things I typically suggest when putting your seed round syndicate together. Understand the difference between and a lead and a follower.

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Syndicate Syndication Lead Investor Seed Stage 49

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. They prefer local opportunities where they can meet and work face-to-face with your team. Thus, angel investments from across the country or internationally are rare.

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Venture Capital Angel Investor Search Accredited Investor 322

View from Seed

MAY 3, 2022

Today’s announcement welcomes other investors to the syndicate, Asymmetric Capital Partners and Tectonic, along with continued participation from us at NextView, Afore, Interlace, Alante Capital, and 1517.

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Entrepreneur Syndicate Syndication IPO 156

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Full disclosure: I am an angel investor in Meowtel and Sonya via the Jason Calacanis syndicate. Sonya Petcavich is the founder and CEO of Meowtel.com, an ‘Uber for cat sitting’ service where a vetted cat sitter will come to your house and look after your kitties for as long as you need them to. When […].

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Founder Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication 67

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We’ll be doing this via AngelList’s new Syndicate approach through an entity called FG Angel where we will create a syndicate of up to $500,000, allowing others to invest $450,000 alongside anything we do. Foundry Group ) can create the syndicate in the future, at which point we’ll move the activity over to there.

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Syndicate Syndication Early Stage Networking 163

VC Adventure

JANUARY 22, 2014

We structure our investment in companies via an LLC that has all the individual FG Angels syndicate members in it. This simplifies life for the company as they only end up with 1 investor – the FG Angels syndicate LCC – rather than a bunch of individual investors. AngelList handles the syndicate signature.

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Syndicate Syndication SEC Cap Table 111

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Look for a warm introduction to make this work. Apply to local angel investor groups.

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Startup Equity Entrepreneur Angel Investor 436

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2016

After two years of a dedicated experiment, we’ve decided to stop making new investments via our FG Angels Syndicate. The Monday after AngelList announced their Syndicate product in September 2013 we decided to to jump in with both feet and start FG Angels. Average syndicate investment amount per deal: $316k.

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Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor Entrepreneur 70

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2019

how much the company is raising, valuation expectations, round/syndicate dynamics, etc.). During the debrief, we would discuss not only aspects of the company (i.e. team, market, product, stage/traction) but also the potential deal itself (i.e.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Syndicate Syndication 174

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2014

This morning we announced that we have closed a financing in OnTheGo Platforms via our FG Angels syndicate. On October 1st, 2013 we announced that we’d be forming an AngelList syndicate called FG Angels and making 50 seed investments through AngelList by the end of 2014. would come from syndicate participants.

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Syndicate Syndication Finance Government 133

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections. Having someone who the entrepreneur(ial team) has worked with before can be a good validator to other syndicate investors and future investors that they all work well together.

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Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 257

Transformify

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Are the job listings syndicated with external job boards? Usually, some job listings are syndicated for free and receive limited traffic, while others are syndicated at a fee and receive much more targeted traffic. There are also ATS providers that do not syndicate job listings with external job boards at all.

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Hiring Syndicate Syndication Business Model 95

SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The Austin-based startup reported that Felton Group, the family office of Jaffray Woodriff, led the round with participation from The Syndicate Fund and Techstars Ventures. PurPics, a Generation Z intelligence, and brand advocacy platform announced recently that it has raised $2 million in funding.

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Syndicate Syndication Austin Startup 82

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Startups with large, lifecycle VCs included in the seed round syndicate did not reach Series A faster than those who did not. If a lifecycle VC was involved in the seed investor syndicate, the Series A was noticeably larger, at a $5.9M Roughly four different “philosophies” exist to reach Series A, each with pros and cons.

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Startup Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 333

YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

SYNDICATES : Syndicates are single-purpose investment funds. Syndicates are comprised of a leader, which is usually an experienced and influential angel investor, along with a number of other investors, or backers, which may not have the same connections or influence as the leader.

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Startup Angel Investor Bootstrapping Syndicate 115

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It’s no surprise to me that fast-forward a few months later, along with some seed capital from NextView and our syndicate partner Underscore to accelerate their efforts, the team has grown the service to reach dozens of companies and employees of all stripes, as featured in today’s Scott Kirsner Globe article.

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Seed Capital Syndicate Syndication .Net 222

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I would propose that we call these types of investors “syndicate investors”—super useful folks who join with others to help rounds get raised on various crowd investing platforms. — Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) February 21, 2019. With new technology should come new terminology.

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Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Cap Table 109

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2020

Typically, individual investments will be less than $100K, but a group of angels may syndicate multiples. Make sure your angel investors in the USA are accredited as having an income of at least $200K in annual income and $1M in assets. Angels spread their risk by making multiple smaller investments.

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Angel Investor Valuation Startup Entrepreneur 328

Genuine VC

MAY 29, 2014

Yet even today, whether or not to take a (relatively) small check in a seed round syndicate from a multi-hundred million or even billion dollar fund is still a decision which takes quite a bit of consideration and sometimes consternation. So there is an element of (positive) selection bias in the larger VC syndicate cohort companies.

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Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Valuation 166