Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Post-money valuation probably no higher than $12M (2). Pre-money valuation was approx. Pre-money valuation was approx.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Underwriters realized that as long as the public was happy snapping up shares, they could make huge profits on the inflated valuations (regardless of whether or not the company should have ever been public.) The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was.

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. In summary: Snap’s current business doesn’t justify a $20B valuation. How can one justify a $20B valuation for Snap? Now she’s on it every day!

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Social Network Forecast 48

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

“And if you have a valuation cap; a higher cap is always better than a lower cap.” The primary terms for these types of transactions are the valuation cap and the conversion discount. ” The Cost of Financing. Startups bear the costs of their financing, from the first seed investment to the sale of Series A stock.

Convertible Security 100

Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” What Are Your Valuation Expectations? That being said, there are benefits to learning from past reflections — especially as we near national re-opening, and the theoretical “end” of the pandemic. ” (Rob Go). ” (Lee Hower).

Seed Stage 177

Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. Never, ever, choose your investors based on valuation. Alignment of business objectives and personal relationships means tons more than valuation. 10M post-money valuation = $100M target.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2024

Kudos Eran Shust and team Holisto (formerly Splitty) on your $10M series B for your price aggregation technology! Nice job Shmuel Bachinsky and team Quantum Transistors on securing $17.5M in grant funding from the EU to make quantum computing accessible to everyone! Way to go Ofir Har-Chen and team Clutch Security on raising an $8.5M

Israel 78

Israel Technical Review Iran Stealth 78

VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

However the board could determine what that fair market value was and, generally speaking, there wasn’t a practical way that these valuations could be challenged. Over night a cottage industry was created to conduct these valuations. So what should this discount be? I was wrong.

Valuation 48

Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The reports showcase raw data, analytics, visualizations, and benchmarking statistics on the company from dozens of sources, including team, intellectual property, technology, product, financial, banking, marketing, customer, risk, valuation, and investment information.”. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments. anecdotes.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Europe 63

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

On the back of this momentum, Melio today announced a $110m funding round, rocketing the company to a valuation of $1.3b Israel produced three public cloud companies - Wix, Jfrog and Varonis - representing an aggregated market cap of more than $25b, c. just months after it came out of stealth.

Israel 62

Israel B2B Cloud Europe 62

Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community? And the results were pretty interesting, especially as they clustered with meaningful overlap among companies. When we took the poll itself, one founder said: “This is a great idea.

Early Stage 246

Early Stage Boston Portfolio Silicon Valley 246

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

As evidence that it does work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator graduates at $14.4 An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need. billion, with the total amount raised topping $2 billion.

Incubator 247

Incubator Silicon Valley Startup Small Business Administration 247

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

To convince you it can work, SiteBoat recently aggregated the combined valuation of the top 21 companies graduated by YCombinator at $4.7 All startups are expected to “graduate” in a timely fashion to stand on their own two feet. However, if you are looking for an incubator for “free” money and services, you should think again.

Incubator 234

Incubator New York City Silicon Valley Startup 234

Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

At this point it’s all paper valuation because the stock isn’t liquid so achieving an outcome is a function of executing on the business to achieve a next round of funding or selling it. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage.

Lean 40

Lean Early Stage Valuation Startup 40

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78 For that reason, I am a strong proponent of incubators that screen prospective clients carefully, selecting only the best ones, and track whether they can handle responsibilities, like paying the rent.

Incubator 215

Incubator Entrepreneur New York City Silicon Valley 215

Gust

APRIL 30, 2014

Having now invested in over 85 startups, and finding that my personal metrics are very similar to aggregated industry ones, it is clear that (a) there is little to no correlation between my home runs and my personal favorites, and (b) angel investing done correctly really *can* produce a consistent IRR in the 25%-30% range.

Angel Investor 148

Angel Investor IRR Due Diligence Aggregator 148

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments. anecdotes. (13).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

” This past September, the company raised $130 million in their Series D round , which skyrocketed Lightricks’s valuation to $1.8 Link in Bio allows users to create beautiful microsites to aggregate their content and send their audience to their most important links.

Venture Capital 183

Venture Capital Bootstrapping Valuation Social Media 183

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. The growth and $1 billion valuation of Twitter and its impact on business – The Big Thaw discussion would obviously not be complete without discussing Twitter.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Much of the valuations around the consumer web are rationalizing, and because of that, investors are once again focused on understanding business models. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.)

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The proposed equity crowdfunding rules allow your business to fundraise up to $1 million per 12 month period in its aggregate equity crowdfunding campaigns. Understand Your Business’s Value: Additionally, you must set your business’s strategic funding goals in conjunction with your business’s valuation and share price.

Equity 125

Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

To quantify some of this, CB Insights has released a report covering valuation multiples for both M&A and venture financing for Daily Deal startups. It's not a pretty picture as valuation multiples both price per subscriber & price per voucher are dropping quickly.

Valuation 124

Valuation Aggregator Acquisition Differentiation 124

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

One key to this population growth has been the remarkable ease of the Unicorn fundraising process: Pick a new valuation well above your last one, put together a presentation deck, solicit offers, and watch the hundreds of million of dollars flow into your bank account. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). return on investment after 3.5

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

View from Seed

JANUARY 7, 2020

I aggregated each firm’s latest announced fund by home market to get a sense of available lead seed dollars of each market. For these firms, I allocated 40% of the fund dollars to that secondary home market. Not surprisingly, SF leads the other three markets by a wide margin.

New York 207

New York Boston Marketing Aggregator 207

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Well it’s not clear that media businesses, in aggregate, are inherently more valuable than e-commerce or premium services companies in aggregate [see Note 1 below regarding categorization]. Why are media businesses so valuable?

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 1, 2012

between them, making the aggregate exit value of these acqui-hires 4.2x, which tells us that if the investors on average had a 24% stake they would have broken even on these deals. Firstly – can investors make a decent return on businesses that are acquired for their talent? The indications from this limited data sample are ‘probably not’.

San Francisco 110

San Francisco Hiring Liquidation Preference Aggregator 110

ithacaVC

JANUARY 24, 2013

One interesting point that comes up a lot is how to factor the convertible debt into the premoney valuation of the Series A round. 62,000 of convertible debt outstanding with $13,700 of aggregate interest accumulated, which also converts as well in the qualifying round. . I am going to ignore any valuation cap feature.

Valuation 53

Valuation Balance Sheet Option Pool Dilution 53

Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78 For that reason, I am a strong proponent of incubators that screen prospective clients carefully, selecting only the best ones, and track whether they can handle responsibilities, like paying the rent.

Incubator 147

Incubator Entrepreneur New York City Silicon Valley 147

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our proprietary data science tool cumulatively looks at 100+ factors within 6 macroscopic categories: Team, Financial Performance, Customer and PR traction, Industry and Competition, Product and Brand value, Valuation, and Exit probability, to quantify an investment “Merit Score”.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the case of an early-stage startup that hasn’t issued preferred stock yet, the debt converts into stock of the acquiring company (if it’s a stock deal) at a valuation subject to a cap. Some sort of conversion does occur. Some sort of conversion does occur. If it’s not a stock deal, then one normally sees one of the above scenarios.

Conversion 97

Conversion Sales Later Stage Preferred Stock 97

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Yes, there are intermittent points of feedback along the way, like valuation marks from subsequent rounds of financing. Building a venture capital firm isn’t about continuing to scale talent aggregation over time like most businesses, rather it’s about having a consistent right amount of talent and scaling AUM over time.

Venture Capital 204

Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

At the time, this is last quarter and the stock market has trended upwards nicely since then (a potential leading indicator of private tech valuations), we all agreed venture portfolios were probably still 25-40% overvalued. Valuations.

Portfolio 118

Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 118

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When you aggregate all of the data, these angel investors (across the U.S. The data on valuations, activity levels, geographic and industry distribution is quite interesting, and over time, this will provide a quarterly gauge on angel investment returns, as well. and UK) produced a gross multiple of 2.5X

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152