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...raising a funding round for our hypothetical company. We'll break it down by different stages in the fundraising process. And at those stages, I will talk a little bit about how each element differs according to the round you're raising. Now first of
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...rounds. When I see people spin out of any And that is who. Not that person who's spinning out of a company with a great reputation.
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...rounds. They're gonna build great companies, and there are a lot of companies in that category that are not gonna be great. That's the inevitability
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...done in the in the heat of the market. We even got a a crypto infrastructure round done and an up round, a $10,000,000 a round done, in this market. That founder founding team, by the way, happened to go from 0 to 1,400,000.0
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...rounds of capital before his a. Guess who gave him all three rounds? We were unwavering when doing that. At some point, you must go, Jesus. This is taking longer than we thought.
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but you don't want angels to have so little that it simply is too small for them to care and really step up and help you when you need it. So make sure that that check size matters to them. Next, I see so many founders also drag out the process, meet
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...the kind of funding market in terms of from a fund manager's perspective is the micro funds. These were funds which raised from founders and GPs of venture funds, which is awesome, but they're not riding LPGX anymore. Do you see that trend? And how d
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...round of funding that is at a higher valuation. And I think we say over a 110 in, total investment. So if somebody puts a 10 k check-in and doubles evaluation, maybe we discount that. So it might be 25, 50, or a 100. I think we set as like a minimum
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...rounds? When you look at companies like a Rillit or a Tacto, there's just, like a week later, there's another term sheet for a series b with with literally no change at all, and it's buying the cool option. Do you worry about those rounds? Well, I di
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...rounds. And you don't find your check size uncomfortable in terms of, like, unfriendly. The thing I worry about with the three to 500 ranges, it's a lot of angel checks in that one bulk, and you're not really big enough to also take more than 70% of
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...flying over rounds of funding because they got Pegasus wings. Really nice trend. What this means also is the number of startups could have increased. So if you have a larger number of startups but the same number of series a investors, it's harder to
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...up rounds is probably the time you should think seriously about it when you're a seed fund. Iris came up with a term for it. Actually, we call it an initial liquidity event. So it's, it's an event that has the same impact on fund economics as an IPO.
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...growth rounds. So listeners who are not professional venture capitalists listening to this, it kinda sounds like, okay. Cool. Yeah. Like, they'd have a different strategy. They don't focus on a stage. They just focus on lots of stages. And for anyone
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And then the next round, we said we're gonna exercise our pro rata. And then we were told, you can't. And I was like, yes, we can. Like, you know and then they realized the mistake and then they changed it. So, like, we did our pro rata in the the se
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...rounds and usually, you know, like, Angel precedes seeds series a, b, c, d, e, f, g until forever. We saw that the natural weight and distribution by stage was roughly uniform from a through, call it, f plus, with a little bit underweight in the earl
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