David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” AngelList now runs several institutional “platform funds”, e.g., Maiden Lane ($35M) and CSC Upshot ($400M). . Market Insight.

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Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

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.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 150

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. That was shortsighted and to be honest, I don’t even recall why we started with this assumption. No more, no less.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 120

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Disruptable Pattern #5: Institutional investors are eager to cut larger checks rather than smaller ones. This is like a chef who likes to buy a whole cow in order to serve a client one hamburger.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We’re thrilled to have among our limited partners a select group of individuals from the startup ecosystem as well as several large institutional investors (including a university endowment, a corporate pension fund, and a multi-family office). NextView’s inaugural fund is just over $21 million.

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LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

David Teten

JULY 11, 2019

Ranked in descending order of frequency of use, they are: 1) Syndicate the investment out to coinvestors, without charging any fee. I recently wrote about How VCs Structure a Syndicate and Recruit Coinvestors. These are designed to allow an institutional investor to invest followon rounds in existing portfolio companies.

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Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors Dilution 60

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Non-institutional Leads. I’ve seen a few cases now where a number of very high-quality institutional investors were interested in investing in a company at valuation, but a non-institutional investor was willing to set terms 1.5 – 2X higher than that valuation.

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Cram Down Institutional Investors Dilution Seed Stage 66

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

Such market power allows bankers to shapes the profile of those companies worthy of going public to favor the natural demand from their largest clients: short-term trading focused hedge funds and large institutional investors that demand highly liquid public securities. Share and Enjoy:

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IPO Merger Institutional Investors Venture Capital 40

Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

The binary “get yacht-level rich or die trying” mindset is driven, first and foremost, by large institutional investors. Success for institutional VCs is driven not by absolute dollars returned, but by % returns on capital. If I put in $2MM and get out $10MM in a $50MM exit, that’s a solid 5x return.

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Liquidation Preference Common Stock Valuation Silicon Valley 48

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

But we behave pretty much exactly the same way in those companies as we do when we are the lead and only institutional investor. Syndicate Composition: NextView + Seed Funds + Angels: 9. We don’t need to be the lead, and in a number of cases, we have participated alongside another lead. This isn’t a quota.

Portfolio 49

Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy very discreet. We published the full report in the Journal of Private Equity ; it’s now the #2-most viewed article in the Journal’s history.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114