Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

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. Business accelerators like YCombinator and TechStars are sometimes able to help startups looking for seed-stage funding.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which actually funds more startups then all other venture sources combined (over $25 billion annually). By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. I’ll spare you the math and point out that this means we funded 0.104% of the market. The Case for Reduced Funding Levels.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

We either had to triple down and raise another fund (with which you have fees to pay for offices & salaries) or move to a different model. And since we all knew that Sam’s dealflow and judgment were sound we empowered him to make early-stage, accelerator-like investments in early-stage entrepreneurs under the Upfront brand.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. Unicornless. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3

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Both Sides of the Table

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.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. We ended up all going to three different colleges in the Fall of 2015. One day, after they made their first investment, a six-figure sum, we figured out we needed to take this money seriously and not be in school. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Some of the big milestones we did, include a seed round of financing in the fall of 2015, which was led by Upfront Ventures. That was an insider round, where ssetnailly, Upfront led and angel Brian Spaly, the former co-founder of Bonobos and the CEO of Trunk Club ended up investing. That money was meant for us to expand.

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