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JULY 23, 2014

” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners?” ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Seed funds now represent 67% of all funds being created now, which is up 100% from 6 years ago. .”

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. I think they definitely qualify as a VC and not a seed fund.

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Seed Funding Venture Capital Funding Software Review 283

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MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347