VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

What’s the difference between an angel round and pre-seed round and why do I believe we’ll see more pre-seed rounds taking place in 2024? While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support. However, you will serve as a co-pilot on deals with all four partners, across the geographies we cover.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You might like to think that a bunch of savvy venture capitalists saw a market niche for raising smaller funds or perhaps there was a generational shift where disgruntled junior partners spun out of bigger firms to start their own gigs. But the strangest thing about the decline in the seed stage only happened in the seed stage.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support. NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $500M+ of capital under management.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

How to Sell Your Startup’s “Secret” Master Plan at the Seed Stage “Articulating and selling your long run vision is important, but trying to convince those that are deeply skeptical about it is simply a mutual waste of time.” Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.”

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2013

As I’ve written before here at Forward Partners we work with entrepreneurs to help them launch and scale their companies in two different ways. Both sides are free to walk away. Whilst cash is important what really sets us apart is that we offer more than just investment.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Regardless, your singular goal is typically to drive towards a “Partner Meeting” where you can pitch the story and vision to the entire investment team. What is usually less understood is what happens after these Partner Meetings – How do VCs debrief and how are decisions made (or not made)? .

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2015

In the last six months, we’ve been asked and answered several key questions about seed-stage startups and raising seed capital. All we do is seed — we focus on it, we want to be the best seed partner, and we obsess over helping startups through that first, formative 18-24 month period.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Way to go Raz Zohar and team Mave on your $2 pre-seed for your AI Assistant for the Real Estate Industry! NEW FUNDS Congratulations Gili Raanan and team Cyberstarts on the new (and fourth) $60M fund to invest in seed stage Israeli cybersecurity startups!

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We only make a small number of investments each year per partner so that we can be hands-on. We take board seats and want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with founders at the seed stage to try to make the biggest possible impact. – We are seed investors. The least was on the firm’s brochure-ware.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Media and Entertainment (includes Martech and Adtech) by Luma Partners LUMA Partners released their Q3 2024 Market Report for the Digital Media & Marketing sector. At Remagine Ventures, we’re particularly excited about backing early-stage founders building at these intersections.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

A Startup Lab invests guidance, strategy, and takes equity in a carefully selected collection of early and seed stage startups. Startup Labs get involved in the life of the company and become its business partner from all angles, which increases its likelihood of succeeding. What is a Startup Lab?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For example, in B2B SaaS conversion, OpenView Partners 2022 benchmark report found that the average conversion rate for B2B SaaS businesses was 7.3% The benchmarks are based on the US market. The sources for the data include studies by HubSpot , Recurly , MarketingSherpa and more. based on a sample of over 300 SaaS companies.

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View from Seed

APRIL 16, 2015

The fact that at least a few customers (and one channel partner) would sign on with such a rudimentary product was an interesting indication that the question above would be solvable for this business. The post Value Inflection Points for Seed-Stage Startups appeared first on The View From Seed.'

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My partners and I would be thrilled to support this founder in general, but we don’t have enough conviction about the market opportunity he and his co-founders are pursuing to proceed with an investment. ” And the honest answer is “not at all.” My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2015

Something NextView partner Rob Go said the other day really stuck with me: “A little design goes a long way.” To focus on hiring briefly: Seed-stage startups lack early traction but make up for it with tons of promise. The post Accidental VC: How Much Does Design Matter for Seed-Stage Startups?

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SiliconHills

JULY 12, 2014

Comfy, a startup that helps students find housing, received $600,000 in seed stage funding last week. The Austin-based company received the money from a group of investors led by Mike Lee, partner at Dominion Ventures. The round also included prominent angel investors and Austin Ventures.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 27, 2018

million in seed-stage funding. Austin-based Capstar Partners led the investment into the company. Million in Seed Stage Funding appeared first on SiliconHills. Wellnicity, which makes home health test kits and supplements, announced it has received $3.6 “We chose to invest in […].

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There aren’t a tonne of funds focused on seed-stage funding worldwide, but we can add a new one to the list today. SparkLabs , the company behind the accelerator program in Korea , is expanding its scope with its first seed-stage fund that will “help great startups go global.”. Asia Entrepreneur Insider News sparklabs'

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View from Seed

MAY 2, 2019

As the seed stage that atomized and series A rounds have become larger and more traction based, the paths to series A have changed. 500K in angel or pre-seed funding -> Raise a $2–3M institutional seed -> Raise an A. This is the logical path that one would think is pretty “standard” for early stage companies.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As someone relatively new to the VC space, I was particularly struck by the partners’ collective reflections regarding what has changed and what has remained the same. We are high-conviction, hands-on seed stage investors. We will continue to be hands-on, high-conviction seed stage investors. Check it out! .

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View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

Seed stage companies will mostly face questions around the team and market. Due diligence may seem like a drag, but partnering with an investor is a serious commitment, and you want to make sure that whoever you work with has built real conviction about you and your company.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Written.com receives $1 million in seed stage funding from LiveOak Venture Partners, Floodgate and several angel investors. Written.com takes the guesswork out of content marketing,” Josh Kerr, […] The post Written Raises $1 Million in Seed Stage Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

. $100M is a meaningful increase from our $50M third fund, though it’s still quite small in the grand scheme of venture, especially amid the recent wave of late stage financings and SPACs. We believe that this fund is the perfect size for us to be the best possible partners to early-stage entrepreneurs today.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. All were backed based on the sole criteria that they had the potential to make my limited partners a lot of money. Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. is an education technology company that partners with top colleges & universities to bring their degree programs and credit-bearing courses online.”. What does your company actually do?

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 6, 2015

million in seed stage funding form angel groups, strategic partners and Capital Factory. Million in Seed Stage Funding appeared first on SiliconHills. CURB, an Austin-based energy startup, announced Tuesday that it has closed on $1.25

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Partners leave the industry. Here’s my take: 1.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

With plenty of resources available for entrepreneurs about how to craft an effective pitch deck for raising seed-stage capital from VCs, often what’s left out are some of the tactical components of an initial meeting. Different partners in a VC firm are different. Mistake #3: Not knowing who you are talking to ahead of time.

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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. It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. Seed stage companies just aren’t announcing their rounds anymore.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s interesting to note that the majority of these new funds are focused on Seed stage investing (not surprising if you follow the market, although investments at the Seed and Seed + stages have started to decline quite a bit from their peak a few years ago). Stay active and top of mind. Participate.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Out of hundreds of applications, we selected six pre-seed stage teams building companies shaping a brighter collective future by combining software and creativity to drive change in the lives of everyday people — their businesses include everything from empowering local main street businesses to making automobile insurance more accessible.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

For us, I honestly believe that we are investing in more or less the same types of companies today that we were investing in 10 years ago, but the dynamics of these rounds mean that we are able to be the best partners with a fund closer to $100M vs. our initial fund of $20M.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As someone relatively new to the VC space, I was particularly struck by the partners’ collective reflections regarding what has changed and what has remained the same. We are high-conviction, hands-on seed stage investors. We will continue to be hands-on, high-conviction seed stage investors. Check it out! .

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials.

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