VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Takadu’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product enables utility companies to detect leaks, bursts and equipment failures as well as alerting personnel of any problems through email and SMS. Procter & Gamble and ConTIPI, which was founded in 2002 and is based in Caesarea, have had a distribution agreement since 2007 based on royalties.

Israel 96

Israel United Kingdom Austria Global 96

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. FWIW, that is not how we operate.).

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Early Stage Cofounder Finance 120

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

Today Cloze has started to talk more publicly about their funding and also is starting to open their product more broadly. Having been involved in the formation and early growth of LinkedIn, I saw a clear opportunity for Cloze’s product. I hope you’ll have an opportunity to check out Cloze’s product.

Cofounder 140

Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The classic entrepreneur builds the business — quite frankly, he or she probably just builds the product for a long time first, then the business. In the course of the interview, I realized that I’ve spent at least as much energy over the years building the company concurrently with the product/business.

Warrant 128

Warrant Syndication Syndicate Matching 128

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Some may end up having more modest outcomes that product a decent return on investment, which we fully understand and are supportive of. I’ve been to a World Cup (South Korea 2002), gold medal Olympic soccer matches (men & women Beijing 2008), English Premier League, MLS, heck even AYSO. Filed under Uncategorized.

South Korea 124

South Korea Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 124

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed.

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100