abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. You can no longer simply look at the cap table and estimate your return. If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Maybe this is my inherent bias as a comms pro, but in aggregate , I believe the uncaptured upside when women founders stay under the radar is far more detrimental than the risks that come with visibility. In the process of investing, we became rather obsessed with helping founders build more diverse and impactful cap tables.

IPO 112

IPO Cofounder Early Stage San Francisco 112

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

And the good thing is, was it included people that were already in our cap table. But I am, in aggregate, really proud, not just of the decisions we made, but of how everyone acted. So now the terms were going to not be the terms you'd get a few months earlier. But we actually had quite a lot of interest. It was just stressful.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. But one of those pieces is how companies get formed, how they raise money, how they manage their cap table and how they eventually go public. How did it come on your radar for the first time? And yeah, I was just home for the holidays at my parents' house.

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. These are the parties on the cap table prior to the transaction. I am a member of this group, and I have developed these perspectives over many years of watching from the inside and being equally gullible.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Professor VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

And the company has only one investor on the cap table but can (if they wish) take advantage of a larger group network. Individuals pool their cash in to a single purpose entity to make the investment in the company. Individuals can make smaller investments in a number of companies, gaining portfolio diversification benefits.

Accredited Investor 42

Accredited Investor SEC Cap Table Angel Groups 42

VC Adventure

JANUARY 24, 2025

At one end of the barbell would be essentially asset managers (asset aggregators) and at the other, smaller firms that were more in the mold of what we historically thought of as venture. They aggregate massive amounts of capital across a large and diverse set of funds and often build huge organizations to support their work.

Aggregator 56

Aggregator LP Cap Table Venture Capital 56