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Changes in the Venture Capital Funding Environment

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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.

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Welcoming the Newest Partner to Upfront Ventures

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Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. The reality is the best angels, the best seed funds and the best A-round investors have choices about whom they will refer deals to and are very selective. And of course it doesn’t hurt that Kevin is fluent in Mandarin. Watching him develop over the past 4.5