View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

This initial wave of applicants resulted in the selection of six initial Accelerator participants – female & male founders at startups hailing from the Bay Area to Miami to Alabama to Boston, ranging from b2b SaaS offerings to consumer services… all transforming people’s everyday lives.

Cofounder 177

Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Alabama 177

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

And we invest in US-based startups, primarily on the US east coast though we’ll consider other parts of country on a selective basis (roughly 15-20% of our portfolio is in the SF Bay area). We also invest only in software & internet enabled businesses. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

At NextView, we spend a substantial portion of our time trying to help our portfolio companies prepare for growth as “venture scale” businesses. 5) Plausible monetization – If you’re an e-commerce or B2B SaaS company, it’s harder to raise a Series A as a pre-revenue company. What’s Your Favorite Future?

Seed Stage 113

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Our portfolio has grown to 15 companies today, the bulk of which is on the US East Coast and roughly half the companies have already progressed from the seed stage to completing Series A rounds. Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

This particular company, as a B2B SaaS business, would definitely benefit from driving traffic to convert into subscribers or leads on their email list. Across the NextView portfolio and in discussing this topic more broadly, we’ve found that funding announcements are rarely good customer acquisition channels.

Startup 120

Startup PR Cofounder Stealth 120

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

This is why I’ve made a habit of profiling our portfolio quantitatively and why we write summaries announcing pretty much all of our new investments. So, here is our annual quantitative summary of our portfolio. A Stroll Through Our Portfolio. Type of Product and Business: Consumer vs. B2B. 5 are in other locations.

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Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2013

As an aside, B2B companies, and in particular B2B technology companies, tend to be the most progressive in content marketing for demand generation. Their thesis is that content marketing provides the B2B buyer with information that will help make them smarter in making the best decision.

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Demand Tampa Marketing B2B 76

View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

The second was a B2B SaaS company with a particular product thesis that needed to be tested prior to their building out a larger team or a commercial-grade product. This was accomplished with $250K of funding in about 6 months. Third, a pre-seed isn’t just about economics for an investor or the difficulty of fundraising.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Finance Founder Syndicate 120

Rob Go

JANUARY 28, 2016

The second was a B2B SaaS company with a particular product thesis that needed to be tested prior to their building out a larger team or a commercial-grade product. This was accomplished with $250K of funding in about 6 months. Third, a pre-seed isn’t just about economics for an investor or the difficulty of fundraising.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Finance Founder Syndicate 28