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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. What gives?

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Confessions Of A VC: Crap – Why I Passed On Uber’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

Too bad, as the initial funding round has increased over 4,000 times in value, making a $250,000 investment worth more than $1,100,000,000. A VC has done their job when their funds include enough great companies to generate an industry-leading outcome. The Billion Dollar Email. If so, not a great fit.