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“Why AI infrastructure investing is off-limits for most seed funds”
...seed model broadly. There's some folks who do actually a very good job of this. Like, I think Ed Sim at Boldstar is effectively infrastructure oriented investor, and there's some others. But, yes, the
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Individuals join us. No idea, no team, no company. And within three to six months, they are then raising somewhere between 2 and $15,000,000 from some of the world's best species. I'm Scott McGrew. Welcome to Sand Hill Road. This week, the astonishin
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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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...of stages, you know, whether it's pre seed, seed,
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...for a seed round and maybe trying to find an anchor seed fund who will put in 250 to a million. They would typically do 500 k. They put in 500 k, and then you could pass the hat with other angel investors for 500 k, and then deploy that with the goal
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...a seed, there are more data points. Most of the times, we've seen both, services. We obviously would prefer to have more data points in order to understand what has happened and what's the the speed of execution.
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...seed rounds that are like $4 or $5,000,000 To me, the purpose of a seed round is you have an insight about the future and you have a massive risk that you're hoping to take out. The ideal seed round is one which provides slightly more than the minimu
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before the launch. But, yeah, we got offered some money and we turned it down. We're like, we don't need your money at a low valuation. We had this, genius idea, which was we were going to in q one, we were gonna launch. By 2008, we were gonna have m
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grinding into this idea and seeing how to get it off the ground. Did you, did you any of you guys talk about let's go out and raise some money for this thing? I mean, you two business school students access to, you know, maybe at least face, you know
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...funding organizations and agencies, both here and in Europe. But I would also say one of the most interesting signs of life I've seen is private equity. Private equity wants to be co investors, particularly in hot sectors. And something like 40 or 50
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...series b funding, series a, or angel, or even incubator. No one thought to go back before that, and you're you're pre incubator. Yeah. Yeah. But it works. It shouldn't work. I I mean, when we first started, it was very much seen as breaking the statu
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...seed round. Accel wanna do 2.4, 2.5 of the 3,000,000 seed round, and then they've saved the rest for angels. They're not gonna let you come in and take 500 k or even 400 k and replace all of the angels. And because you're not leading, you don't have
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to raise money. So I'm sorta glad that we didn't listen to those people, and we did it. But it was hard because I didn't have a team. I cofounded it with Zaida Howard, who was at IDP for nine years. So I brought somebody onto my founding team. She an
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...at seed, broad definition, but the the the rounds we join are usually a 3 to $45,000,000 round at a 20 something valuation. There's, of course, lots of bars around that. But that usually means the company has a product,
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...is a seed complex out there where you can do bridges and notes.
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...at seed to build the product. Now there are so many tools to help you build the product. If you come and you haven't actually tried to build something yourself, right, and you don't haven't actually given it to people and, like, shown your ingenuity
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...funding that are not receiving, direct investments. And just for founders to stay aware that the most expensive way to finance your initiative is to give away equity. So there are other alternatives we have, like the grants, competitions, as I mentio
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...that is funding years three through seven of Homebrew Forever. And by year eight, that magical 2030 that originally was when we were gonna start this, hopefully we're recycling proceeds from 2022, 2023. So if you look at it and say, what sort of capi
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...I'm gonna do my seed and c plus or whatever all at once. I'm gonna make it last three years because I don't know when the AI security market will be hot. And we closed a $40,000,000
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