2015 Angel Seed Funding Venture Capital 
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture.
socalTECH
JANUARY 15, 2020
Los Angeles-based Pepper Financial , a startup led by startup veteran James Borow, recently raised $5.6M in a seed funding, which was led by Mark Suster at Upfront Ventures, and which also included Lerer Hippeau, Manta Ray, and angels. to bring better financial management to businesses.
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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2015
A seed-stage “super angel.” This is a relatively new term loosely applied to angels who invest their own money in a portfolio of startups (typically 20 or more) and are willing to lead multiple rounds, usually starting with a seed round. A micro venture capital firm. A “genesis” venture capital round.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2014
I have been involved with a high profile one in Los Angeles – Launchpad LA – and we’ve decided to make a shift so I thought this was a good time for reflection. There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. And Jamie hers.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 5, 2016
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. In other words, it isn’t that VCs suddenly got smart, it’s that the costs of starting a company went down dramatically. Rise of Angels.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Los Angeles-based venture investment firm CrossCut Ventures (www.crosscut.vc) announced this morning that it has raised its fourth fund, CrossCut 4 , a brand new, $125M early stage investment fund. We spoke with one of the firm's four Managing Directors, Clinton Foy , about the big new fund and its investments.
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