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seed funding
...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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...the seed market to say, are you raising from a multi stage fund? If so, that's the style standard deal that you can go get. And if you're not raising from a multi stage fund, there's a different deal on the table. That's a 2 to $4,000,000 round, mayb
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...of stages, you know, whether it's pre seed, seed,
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...or seed. Pre seed, we came up with because the seed round started to get large, so we just said, oh, it's a pre seed round. So we keep coming up with these names in the industry. Friends and family, your parents gave you $10 to incorporate. And then
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...seed has gotten institutionalized, a lot of these firms wanna actually see a little more product at the door or are taking a little less risky bets around that, to be honest with you. That's what happens when you take institutional capital. And so, a
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...of the the funding rounds are happening. They're just much larger in size. More capital is required. And if you have a smaller fund, you can be incredibly constrained around where you can play. So it gives you more options and and helps you be more c
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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, five to 10 customers POCs that's going
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evolved the seed market to say, are you raising from a multi stage fund? If so, that's the style standard deal that you can go get. And if you're not raising from a multi stage fund, there's a different deal on the table. That's a 2 to $4,000,000 rou
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those very best companies, those very competitive rounds. And, yeah, and, of course, it it also makes you think that that type of fund, you cannot just deploy it at CNCUA's a. You have to become more multistage. You have to think about, you know, wha
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...has gotten institutionalized, a lot of these firms wanna actually see a little more product at the door or are taking a little less risky bets around that, to be honest with you. That's what happens when you take institutional capital. And so, anyway
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...seed investor to doing what series a used to be. And there was a time, I think it was in 2014 or 2015, where there were six deals in all of New York that were at a million dollars in size or under that had an institutional seed investor in them. And
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...We'll do lots of seeds, and we won't take bird seats in the seed investments. And you don't need that much capital, we won't give you that much capital, and we won't take that much ownership. And then we'll do series a's. Sure. But we'll also do seri
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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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...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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As you look out the stages in the later stage, you have more of a established understanding of a risk return profile of some of these companies because they have scale and they're building out. The early stages is quite a challenge, but we think that
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...the seed round was called an a. So the it was named by the letter a. So we did the b and the c, and then we didn't do the d, which is when DST came in. How do you think about reserves? Because there is the theory that, hey, a company will never be as
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is still very important for start ups to, you know, kinda get to from zero to one. We're seeing people come to our founding university, go to our accelerator, and then go to, YC, Sequoia, ARC, and Tristan Hearn speed run. It's very interesting becaus
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