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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

Round sizes of > $100 million or more now account for 47% of all VC dollars (62% if you count rounds > $50 million) This has made venture capital significantly more valuable for VCs and LPs who invest in the best companies As part of our study we noticed a trend many have spotted but few have explained?—?why

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Donut Media's Matt Levin On Creating A New Car Enthusiast Brand

socalTECH

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Donut Media (www.donut.media) announced a seed funding round, for its efforts to create a online, video-focused brand centered around car enthusiasts. I think there was one study which said Millenials are not interested in buying cars recently. That's 100 percent true.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. Also, you mentioned an interesting rails session that you attended last month about security, and we've been studying Google's web app security guidelines. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial.