David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Kevin has written over 620 syndicated columns). We market to four populations: High-potential founders.

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Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

Unfortunately, what the CEO/founder forgets most often is that the notes have a multiplier effect in the post-money calculation; the more notes and the further the cap is from the new priced equity, the greater the variance between actual and nominal pre- and post-money valuations. It’s going to be great!”.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Dharmesh Shah had a great post up last week about the lessons learned from raising a mezzanine round of financing. But the more meaningful reason that early financing terms endure into future rounds is that negotiation away from terms already in place are just that – negotiation. In contrast, valuation always has room to move up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. million and is normally syndicated from one to three institutional seed investors or larger VC funds. These funders often offer convertible notes, rather than the traditional priced equity.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 5, 2014

First we announced a $35mm financing led by Vista Equity Partners, an exceptional private equity firm that I’d never heard of before the middle of the fundraising process a few months ago. This was a big week for Return Path.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

These days, though, getting the financing for a startup doesn’t have to be the herculean task it once was. Generally, it also allows potential consumers to get a share of the business — whether through equity or an actual tangible item or product itself — to bolster confidence in the brand. Small Business Grants.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

Specifically, our seed investments are not “options on the next round.&# We price our seed rounds as equity investments, always lead or co-lead (as Fred describes in ? At Foundry Group, we describe ourselves as being “syndication agnostic&#. Tags: Seed Financing seed VC. each are equally happy situations.)

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Growthink Blog

MAY 3, 2010

Series B funding, as you may recall, is the 2nd institutional round of equity funding that a company receives. Typically a Series B financing event will raise $5 to $10 million for the company. million Series B financing round - this is the biggest Series B round I've seen in a long time. Last week Amonix raised a $129.4

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. He then went on to say that this type of financing was good for the entrepreneur (vs taking VC money) because they got to keep more of the company. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The article, which you may read in full by clicking HERE , makes the following key points: Sophisticated trust portfolios often benefit from direct exposure to active and passive investments made in venture capital and private equity.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 10, 2010

We price our seed rounds as equity investments, always lead or co-lead … and treat them the same way we would a $10m investment… when we make a seed investment, it gets everyone’s attention. In this case neither Niel (nor I) had any interest in creating a traditional syndicate to fund the company.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. The new money comes in at a pre-money valuation of $100, but includes a complete refresh of founder equity to 40% of the company.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Here’s my first look at Facebook viewed through the lens of their IPO filing. Facebook, Inc.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2018

The financial side of technology entrepreneurship means that almost from inception, an entrepreneur has to think about and plan his or her sources of financing. Wether you like it or not, startups. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. Services like Angel List syndicates are disrupting angel investing and reducing the traditional information costs and access issues that have made angel investing more work. I can only think of a few exceptions to this zero-sum principle.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

What’s your attitude about “next round” financing? If the investors ideal size is smaller than your need, you ought to ask about syndication. If they don’t like to syndicate, or don’t have a track record of doing it, you will want to consider your options. What’s your attitude about “next round” financing?

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

Another closely related area is that of variable pricing on convertible debt or equity deals where different investors have different caps. Another area where I''m not sure I stand is with some of the more formal referral and syndication programs that are emerging now.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

When it comes to founders, Texas has jewelry mogul, Kendra Scott; Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban of Shark Tank; Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble; video game developer, John Carmack; Vista Equity Partners Founder, Robert Smith; Michael Dell of Dell Technologies; and now Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla! all Bay Area firms?—?

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On the heels of the announcement we made last month about our Series B financing , we are now announcing the launch of a new program called Bolster Prime and a new venture capital fund called Bolster Ventures. This is another big week for us at Bolster. What about the middle?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups. Friends and family investors.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

Actually, growth equity firms I find are best at this, because they have very specific financial criteria that they look for, such as ranges for revenue, ebitda, growth, etc. Post Revenue: 6 1/2 (the 1/2 is for a company that had revenue, but did a major product pivot as part of the financing). Consumer: 9. Premium Service: 5.

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Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

It was a great product addressing a large market opportunity and was interested in seeing how the AngelList syndicate process worked. I don''t know the reasons for selling, but presumably Authy felt their prospects weren''t promising as a standalone entity and may have had difficulty raising further financing.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). ProfessorVC.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Sophisticated VC and private equity funds have a wide array of options for leveraging outside operating executives. Another example is Correlation Ventures ($300M+ AUM), a VC firm which co-invests in financings with at least one other new outside VC. – Syndicate Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPVs”) for specific opportunities.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The fall semester at SJSU started this week and had the first class meeting of my Entrepreneurial Finance class, which was overflowing with students standing, sitting on the floor and begging to get in. Whether you buy this or not for public equities, the market for early stage private companies has always been wildly inefficient.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

We’ve spoken of financing a young company through friends and family, known as “inside angels.” There are three classes of equity investors for early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. Often grouped into formal organizations, these investors are sophisticated, helpful, and connected. Raising money'

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