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

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Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. why the hell has seed financing declined so much in the past 3 years?? As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds. This translates to about 12–15 investments.

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The brains behind one of marketing’s biggest hits are out to reshape the industry again… with direct mail

TechCrunch LA

At the early stage investment firm Fink said he was responsible for marketing activities for companies including Dollar Shave Club, DogVacay, SpringRole, Wishbone, and Hello Society over the six years he worked at the company. . They aren’t the only ones. Postie has raised $3.5

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NeuroVigil Gets Funding

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NeuroVigil said the funding came from an "anonymous American industrialist and technology visionary". NeuroVigil's technology is based on research from the Salk Instutute for Biological Studies. The firm was founded by Dr. Philip Low. It's unclear if those investors continue to have a stake in the firm.

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

TechCrunch LA

For one, because millennials, according to various studies, are consuming less alcohol than previous generations and are therefore seeking non-alcoholic beverage alternatives. Bev , a canned wine business that recently raised $7 million in seed funding from Founders Fund, thinks marketing in the alcohol industry is the problem.

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Why Sidevision Is Tying Content, E-Commerce Together, with Justin Wu

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We recently spoke with co-founder and CEO, Justin Wu to learn more about the company, which so far has received a small seed funding from Warner Bros. which has also invested in us. Justin Wu: We all met at the University of Washington, and studied computer science. What is Sidevision all about?

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My Chat with Dan Primack of PEHub

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Is there a bubble going on in seed investing? Seed stage industry was left for dead over the last decade as VC investors moved later and later as they became risk-averse. A recent study said seed stage valuations have been quite static recently. This could happen if every VC fund continues to launch a seed fund.