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DECEMBER 14, 2014

Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. With this fund we also wanted to broaden our partnership ranks and added the talented Jamie Kantrowitz. As we started to focus on what each of us wanted to do, Adam raised his venture capital fund – Plus Capital.

Venture Capital 290

Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

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JUNE 5, 2016

Rise of Seed. Prior to then the concept of “seed funds” barely existed and as I’ve argued before the seed fund phenomenon was largely driven by: Open source + horizontal computing + Amazon AWS. Explosion in Seed Funds. Now seed funding is conventional wisdom. I Leaderless Rounds.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Capital Funding Seed Funding 150

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

The market has yielded what investment guru Michael Moritz recently termed “ subprime Unicorns.” First, corporate investors including Google, Rakuten, Alibaba, Comcast and others have increased their investments in venture and often don’t have the same profit motive (and thus pricing motive) as traditional investors.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Pricing Platform Marketing 150