View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction. We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage.

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction. We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Beacon technology system , which automatically outbound-solicits a universe of over 10,000 institutional investors, without requiring LPs to register for an online network of funds. .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We use the vendors of PE/VC investing data I list above to track the interests of potential private equity/VC coinvestors, and selectively introduce our companies as I build out a syndicate. . 9) Time, market, and exit investment. ExitRound helps early stage companies identify buyers.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

BUT we went to market asserting that Homebrew should take the seed investor Board seat. This would make room for a meaningful number of other investors in the syndicate but also the concentration we needed. Three of our 17 core investments were first institutional rounds priced more like A’s than seeds.

Cofounder 105

Cofounder Seed Stage Syndication Syndicate 105

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. But we behave pretty much exactly the same way in those companies as we do when we are the lead and only institutional investor. This isn’t a quota.

Portfolio 49

Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49