Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2010

We’ve been having a running joke within Foundry Group for several years about “stealth mode.” My partner Seth alludes to it in his blog post a few years back titled To stealth or not to stealth. Niel wrote a brilliant post on this titled The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth. You should also.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. Our partners include IBM and one unannounced Fortune 50. 2017 Recap.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 8, 2010

Recently Dan Frommer over at the Silicon Alley Insider wrote about the reemergence of “stealth mode ”. With one of our portfolio companies, Trada , recently emerging from 18 months of quiet operations, we’re taking the subject up once again (very timely if Frommer’s post is any indication). Tags: stealth.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

With COVID raging at the beginning and end of the year, it is all the more amazing what our portfolio companies have accomplished the last twelve months. We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

With the elite initial team they’ve assembled, they’ve managed to build their first product in record time and secure large six-figure deals while still in stealth mode. Thank you Yotam and Tamar for choosing to partner with us! _ * See Accel 2020 Euroscape ** See Statista.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. Inbound partners. But in my experience, it rarely fails that press coverage attracts the attention of a potential customer or possible new partner.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Last week, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Ten Little , came out of stealth and announced its public launch. . We feel fortunate to have the opportunity to partner with Fatma and Julie in this journey, and we can’t wait to see what’s to come. .

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode.

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View from Seed

JULY 11, 2019

On Tuesday, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Otis, came out of stealth and announced its public launch. We are grateful to Michael and his team for having the trust in us to be his partner in this business from the beginning. It’s very early days for Otis, but we are so excited for the road ahead.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

This could include areas like mental health (as in our portfolio company 10% Happier ), dental health (such as Smile Direct ), nutrition and exercise, pain management, and other areas that impact the everyday life of tens of millions of people. 3) Health Data Applications.

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Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

5/ Copycat Culture And Stealth Mode Back En Vogue: I’ve alluded to this above and below, but now when a category gets hot, founders and capital flood it. And, many of these firms would love nothing better than to cherry pick from the portfolios of the best venture brands out there.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). Our portfolio company BetterWorks cites a report by The World Economic Forum: “Employees are eight times more likely to be engaged when wellness is a priority in the workplace.”

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

As in real life – those that rush into marriage often find out what their partner is really like after the fact. How do you then reference check your VC to be sure that you’ve chosen a good firm and partner? Make sure to call the companies in that VCs portfolio that didn’t succeed. I’m the same.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. An Evidence-based Curriculum (currently taught in the Lean LaunchPad classes and NSF Innovation Corps accelerator ). Those days are over.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

Be sure you have an honest and direct discussion with your lawyers, who should be viewed as true partners who understand these things. Depending on how stealthy you plan to be (and there are pros and cons for being in stealth mode ), it’s good to have a public record of the company by generating some press.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, LinkSmart , has come out of stealth mode and unveiled its product, Total Link Management and $4.7M My partner Seth Levine sits on the board and wrote about his view of LinkSmart. in financing led by Foundry Group.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

While this sounds simple, there is a ton of work that goes into helping our portfolio companies get to a successful Series A. Finally, we try to prewire the Series A investment by getting our portfolio companies to meet with the right partners at the right firms early on before they even need money.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

This post is part of Accel’s Secrets to Scaling series, where leaders from across our portfolio share their learnings and advice with the next generation of European and Israeli entrepreneurs building global winners. You raised four rounds within 18 months, waiting until your third round before coming out of stealth mode.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

As part of our work leading into the new fund, we went on a listening tour - talking to founders about what they want and need from their venture capital partners. What has not changed is that the best founders want experienced guidance, support and value-add, but not interference from their investor partners.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. Alexia Tsotsis: Let’s see, what about other companies that aren’t in your portfolio? Exactly right!

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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

And while these past three months have been far from typical, there was a lot of activity across our portfolio. Cape Privacy emerged from stealth and announced a $5 million seed round , which we co-led with Boldstart Ventures. Lolli closed an oversubscribed $3 million Seed II round and continues to add partners weekly. .

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

After that company failed, I went on and interviewed a bunch of investors that I had met and also some other CEO’s who had failed companies prior to their successes now and asked them, “Why did these companies fail in your portfolio?” ” or “Why did the company you’ve started fail?”

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2016 was a banner year for boldstart , and we could not have achieved any of this without the amazing support of our boldstart family and the founders who have given us the opportunity to invest in and partner with them. 8 of our portfolio companies raised follow on Series A rounds with > $70mm raised and an average size of almost $9mm?—?announced

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

How many entrepreneurs opening words are about how stealth their project is, followed by a 10-page NDA to hear word one? Every VC will tell you that they will take meetings with 100% of the companies that their existing portfolio founders recommend. Your early partners, co-founders, investors and hires are crucial to get right.

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