Seed Funding Technology Writing 
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
You might like to think that a bunch of savvy venture capitalists saw a market niche for raising smaller funds or perhaps there was a generational shift where disgruntled junior partners spun out of bigger firms to start their own gigs. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014.
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Across more than 10 years we have kept the size of our Seed investments between $2–3.5 million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m We also focus heavily on geographies.
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socalTECH
APRIL 8, 2014
We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. There''s so much technology growing, there''s those five or six kids who are really smart and creating the next WhatsApp, or the next game, or the next item which becomes the Internet of you, the Internet of things. Why not Los Angeles? Why not Silicon Beach?
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 26, 2022
And if you look at the above data you can see why Upfront decided to stay focused on the Seed Market rather than raise larger funds and try and compete for A/B round deals. In our best-performing companies we often write follow-on checks totaling up to $10–15 million out of our early-stage fund.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 12, 2014
Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. Why prorata rights are becoming a bigger deal to angels.
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JUNE 27, 2021
On Funding?—?Shots Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 30, 2014
It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. The practical uses for uBeam technology is limitless. Was it safe?
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