seed stage
Venture firms raised $9.3 billion in Q1 according to PitchBook data, which means this year likely won’t match or surpass 2023’s $81.8 billion total. While emerging managers are feeling the…
Cendana, Kline Hill have a fresh $105M to buy stakes in seed VC funds from LPs looking to sell
Fund-of-funds investor Cendana Capital has joined with Kline Hill Partners for a new oversubscribed fund to buy out stakes from seed LPs looking for liquidity.
Seed founders should consider these factors before partnering with multistage funds
Right now, in late 2023, the IPO market is halted, and late-stage deals rarely happen because funds and entrepreneurs cannot find common ground on pricing. The seed-stage arena has become…
Exclusive: Cendana Capital closes on $470M more to back seed-stage fund managers
Michael Kim of Cendana Capital is often a first call for emerging seed-stage fund managers. Cendana has invested in many VC teams that have gone on to enjoy great success…
A new PitchBook report warns of an ongoing economic downturn. If you don’t want to be disappointed, you may not want to put high hopes on seed activity.
Seedstars launches second fund to invest in 100 startups in emerging markets
Since its launch nine years ago, Seedstars has invested in 81 companies in over 30 emerging markets. Now it’s set a goal of investing in 100 more startups with the…
With $2.4M seed, Zing Data wants to put data analysis in the palm of your hand
If data is at the heart of any modern business, it needs to be easier to access and manipulate it without expertise. While there are many data analysis tools available,…
Unusual Ventures just closed a $485M fund by promising hands-on (full-time) help
Unusual Ventures, a now 30-person outfit founded nearly five years ago by former Lightspeed Ventures investor John Vrionis and serial entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, has closed its third fund with $485…
Bull City Venture Partners is the opposite of flashy — and its backers approve
Bull City Venture Partners is the opposite of flashy. The 20-year-old, generalist venture outfit only invests in two to four companies each year. It mostly invests in founders who’ve been…
A year ago, inside of the corporate leviathan Alphabet, Black Googlers and other Black Alphabet employees were invited to some informal programming around angel investing during Black History Month. It…
Marathon Venture Capital adds to its newest fund to back Greek founders around the globe
Marathon Venture Capital, an Athens, Greece-based venture firm co-founded in 2017 by two stalwarts of the Greek startup scene, has added €30 million in capital commitments to its second fund…
Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch)
We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. But one event that we try to catch every year is that of Pear, which is held annually each fall and…
8-Bit Capital, co-led by Jonathan Abrams, has closed its first fund with $40 million
Jonathan Abrams and Kent Lindstrom have partnered on a lot of things over the years. Lindstrom was an adviser and investor at the early social networking service Friendster, founded by…
Fika Ventures nearly triples its assets under management: ‘It’s definitely a crazy time’
Fika Ventures is a five-year-old, LA-based seed-stage fund that has been funding mostly business-to-business startups, as well as fintech companies and a sprinkling of healthcare IT startups — as long…
Founders: How well do you really understand seed-stage financing?
Tactically, fundraising is a skill like any other. You get better the more you do it. But practicing gets you nowhere if you don’t have a strong foundation in understanding…
Nasir Qadree just announced one of the largest debut funds for a solo VC
Nasir Qadree entered the world of venture capital six years ago, beginning with a role at Village Capital in Washington, then as an associate director of social investments at AT&T.…
Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett and investor Marlon Nichols will break down the path to seed-stage funding
Extra Crunch Live is all about helping founders build better venture-backed businesses. Naturally, we do this by having candid conversations with founders and their investors. On an upcoming episode of…
Extra Crunch Live is back in 2021, connecting founders with tech giants and each other
In April 2020, when the entire world was laser-focused on the coronavirus pandemic, we realized that startupland was in unprecedented territory. How should startups navigate fundraising, operations, and better understand…
The House Fund closes its second fund with $44 million to pour into UC Berkeley grads, alums and faculty
In 2016, we profiled a then-24-year-old named Jeremy Fiance who had managed to pool together $6 million for a fund focused on his alma mater, UC Berkeley, where as a…
At the sixth annual Pear Demo Day, weather balloons, branded credit cards and lots of top degrees
Pear, a Palo Alto-based seed-stage fund that has made its name through early bets on Guardant Health, DoorDash, Memebox and Gusto, hosted its sixth annual demo day this week in…
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What seed-stage dilution tells us about changing investor expectations
Round sizes are up. Valuations are up. There are more investors than ever hunting unicorns around the globe. But for all the talk about the abundance of venture funding, there is a lot less being…
We’ve decided to step back from the breaking news for a minute to conduct a review of seed and early-stage funding trends over the last decade for U.S.-based companies. I’m…
East Ventures raises $27.5M seed fund for Southeast Asia, its fifth to date
One of Southeast Asia’s longest-serving seed-stage investors has reloaded its coffers for more deals after East Ventures closed its fifth fund, worth $27.5 million.
KK Fund announces second fund for early-stage startups in Southeast Asia
Good news for early-stage startup founders in Southeast Asia: KK Fund just completed the first close of a new fund for seed stage investments.
The State Of Investments In Europe: A Review Of The Last 5 Years
A lot has been written in the last few years on the evolution of the technology ecosystem in Europe. Our intent with this analysis was to use data to determine…
AngelList Gives Smaller Investors A Piece Of The Action With Launch Of AngelList Invest
AngelList, a service that matches early stage startups with investors, is today continuing its transformation from social network to investing platform with the launch of a new feature called AngelList…
