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This could be a proportion of the company’s equity or investment; in other instances, it could be a portion of its later-stage profits. The criteria change after a company reaches the growth stage when it is deemed to have attained product market fit. The earliest investors in a business are usually syndication.
NVV: Let’s talk about the seed stage specifically. With venture debt as a source of low-cost capital to fuel growth or buy time during laterstages, should a founder approach their fundraising from VCs any differently today ? Traction and revenue? NVV: What do debt providers look for in a company’s track record?
Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. Laterstage investors are using private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Exit Investments”.
Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Laterstage investors are using for sourcing private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Step 11: Exit”. They read reviews of the products of target investments.
I understand that now, being an investor in companies that have over 100 employees, closing in on $100mm run rates, where it’s been a long time since I was a Board Observer and most of their interaction is with the bigger, laterstage investors that came after me.
Our investment size may differ slightly from one company to the next, but it tends to be driven entirely by situation-specific factors (needs of the company, syndicate composition, anticipated reserves, etc) … and not based on our belief. For ecommerce: >$500K revenue/month. For SaaS: At least $100K in MRR.
There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Angels and even VC firms occasionally do this, but they alsoinvest at laterstages. The problems are different in the early stages. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time.
Seed investors invested close to inception with the goal to taking companies to product/market fit, while Series A investors started looking for opportunities with more demonstrable PMF and early traction and invested larger amounts at somewhat higher prices in later-stage companies.
Post-product, early customer data, somtimes real revenue. As a result, many seed funds have pulled back, started making laterstage investments, and even focusing more on mini-Series A’s with a syndicate of seed funds. . “Institutional seed” rounds on the other hand tend to look like this: >$750K.
I syndicated (helped them put together the round) in five: Notehall, MyZamana, Locately, Zippykid, and Instinct. It also means practically that you see a logical path to $3-5M in revenue. VCs are worse -- they care but not in this stage; they're buying an option for laterstages. Try to actively add value.
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