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Institutional Venture Partners

also referred to as: ivp

30 statements across 11 episodes · 10 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Sep 16, 2015 by Fabrice Grinda · said 95 times in 44 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Sep 16, 2015
Disclosure
FJ Labs frequently co-invests with IVP, General Catalyst, and a16z
“But the main VCs that we work with are investor venture partners General Catalyst Andreessen Horowitz we work with Redpoint and We work with the end capital in Europe, and those would be the ones we spend, that we share the most deals with”
Fabrice Grinda Sep 16, 2015 ▶ 11:02 20 VC 072: Super Angel, Fabrice Grinda: The Future of Startup Investing
Feb 6, 2017 neutral
Insight
Maltz: Tech IPOs need $100M revenue, 30% growth, and profitability path
“Companies need to be generally over a hundred million dollars in revenue. They need to be growing over 30%, and they need to have, if not, if they're not profitable, they need to have a very clear path to profitability within two to four quarters.”
Jules Maltz Feb 6, 2017 ▶ 9:07 20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
Feb 6, 2017 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Maltz: VCs hear 200 pitches yearly but make only two investments
“In a year, maybe 200 companies will present to you and you'll only do one or two investments.”
Jules Maltz Feb 6, 2017 ▶ 17:51 20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
Feb 6, 2017 positive
Disclosure
Maltz: IVP targets five to ten fastest-growing late-stage companies weekly
“Every week we're talking about what are the five or 10 fastest growing later stage companies that we're incredibly excited about. And then we're thinking about ways to connect directly with the CEO, actually add value to the company before we invest, and then …”
Jules Maltz Feb 6, 2017 ▶ 5:06 20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
Feb 6, 2017 neutral
Insight
Maltz: Aging VCs lose touch with young founders and consumer trends
“I think there's two big challenges with kind of getting older in venture. The first is you just get Farther away from the age of the CEOs, at least in the consumer space and what the kind of teenagers are doing in terms of using the products.”
Jules Maltz Feb 6, 2017 ▶ 16:46 20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
Feb 6, 2017
Disclosure
Maltz: IVP often makes late-stage investment decisions in days or hours
“We're often making decisions in a matter of days or even hours versus weeks or months, so it's one of those things where you know, you're waiting around a lot, and then you hurry up, and you have this kind of rush process, but the best companies are, that's ho…”
Jules Maltz Feb 6, 2017 ▶ 5:30 20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
Jul 12, 2017
Disclosure
Roseanne Wincek engages startups 18 months before investing
“Honestly, like for the most part, I'm spending time with companies. 18 months before we want to invest in them.”
Roseanne Wincek Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 21:20 20VC: The Blurring of Early & Late Stage, Why Your Go To Market Strategy Is More Important Now Than Ever & Why Venture Is The Academia Of Tech with Roseanne Wincek @ IVP
May 11, 2018 positive
Assertion Supported
Hims has raised over $45M in venture capital funding
“That's raised over forty-five million dollars in VC funding from some of the very best in the business, including Thrive Capital, Forerunner Ventures, IVP, Redpoint, and SV Angel, just to name a few.”
Harry Stebbings May 11, 2018 ▶ 0:25 20VC: Hims' Andrew Dudum on The Scaling Playbook of The Fastest Growing Mens Wellness Brand, How To Be Truly Innovative In Today's World of Online Marketing & Raising at a $200m Valuation within Year 1
Aug 31, 2018
Assertion Supported
Casper Has Raised Over $239M from NEA, IVP, and Leonardo DiCaprio
“And since then, they've raised over two hundred and thirty nine million dollars in funding from the likes of NEA, Lira Hippo, IVP, Norwest Venture Partners, and even include Leonardo DiCaprio on their cap table.”
Harry Stebbings Aug 31, 2018 ▶ 0:26 20VC: Casper Founder Philip Krim on The Right Way To Think About Marketing Channel Diversification, When To Accept Strategic Investors & How To Successfully Build Out Your Exec Team
Dec 20, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
UiPath has raised over $977M in venture funding
“To date, UiPath has raised over nine hundred and seventy seven million dollars in funding from some of the very best in the world, including Sequoia, Excel, Meritech, IVP, Capital G, Kleiner, CoTo, and more.”
Harry Stebbings Dec 20, 2019 ▶ 0:38 20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
Dec 10, 2020
Assertion Supported
IVP invested heavily in Hopin without meeting founder Johnny Boufarhat in person
“I spoke to Jules and Alex at IVP before, and they said, we've invested a lot of money into Hopin, never met Johnny.”
Harry Stebbings Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 16:13 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Dec 10, 2020 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Stebbings: Hopin Raised $174M+ in 13 Months
“In just 13 months, Johnny's raised over a hundred and seventy four million dollars for Hopin, from the likes of Excel, IVP, Slack, North Zone, Co-Two, Salesforce, and of course, TwentyVC fund disclaimer.”
Harry Stebbings Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 0:29 20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
Feb 1, 2021
Assertion Supported
Ilkka Paananen raised over $143M for Supercell prior to Tencent acquisition
“Prior to Tencent acquiring a majority stake in the company at a reported 10.2 billion dollar acquisition price, Ilka raised over one hundred and forty three million dollars for the company from Excel, Index, Atomico, IVP, LVP, Initial and Lifeline to name a fe…”
Harry Stebbings Feb 1, 2021 ▶ 0:26 20VC: Supercell Founder Ilkka Paananen on What it Means To Be "The Least Powerful CEO", His Relationship To Wealth and Risk & How To Create Environments of Safety Where Your Team Can Be Their Best and Most Ambitious Selves
Mar 4, 2021
Assertion Supported
Robinhood raised $5.6 billion total, including a $2.4 billion emergency round
“To date, Vlad has raised over 5.6 billion dollars with Robin Hood, including a 2.4 billion dollar raise just this month, and some of their investors include the likes of Ribbit, Sequoia, Green Oaks, Index, IVP, Thrive, GV, and more incredible names.”
Harry Stebbings Mar 4, 2021 ▶ 0:27 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
Apr 8, 2022
Assertion Supported
IVP manages over $8.7B in capital with a 43.1% 40-year IRR
“As I said, IVP, one of the leading later stage venture capital and growth equity firms with over 8.7 billion dollars of committed capital and a 40 year IRR of 43.1%.”
Harry Stebbings Apr 8, 2022 ▶ 0:10 20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
Apr 8, 2022 neutral
Insight
Liaw: Distrusting a CEO's decision means investing in the wrong person
“And then you have to go back to, well, you don't trust your CEO to make the decision. You probably invested in the wrong company or person.”
Eric Liaw Apr 8, 2022 ▶ 25:35 20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
Apr 8, 2022
Insight
Liaw: Board members will always know less about companies than CEOs
“There's no way as a board member investor, I will know more about what's going on inside of a company Then the CEO, if I do, there's a major problem, but I shouldn't, and I will know a lot less.”
Eric Liaw Apr 8, 2022 ▶ 27:47 20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
Apr 8, 2022 positive
Insight
Liaw: Unprepared introductory pitch meetings with founders are now obsolete
“The idea of, you know, have a first meeting. So tell me about your company and you know nothing like that's a dead meeting. And that's actually great. It saves time, saves the entrepreneurs time so they can get back to running their companies and doing the bus…”
Eric Liaw Apr 8, 2022 ▶ 23:16 20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
Apr 8, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Liaw: Passing on Datadog's Series B was his biggest career regret
“Biggest regret in my career was not investing in Datadog a lot earlier than when we ultimately did. We loved The company, it was probably nine or eleven million dollars in revenue at the time. This is probably the 2014 time frame, and they raised a series B. S…”
Eric Liaw Apr 8, 2022 ▶ 21:11 20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
Apr 8, 2022
Insight
Liaw: Early-stage venture is about picking; late-stage is about access
“I think at earlier in seed stages, I think there's Probably more picking going on. I think that those stages companies need capital or else they're likely to die. Capital is more like a necessity. I think as you get much, much later sort of companies that are …”
Eric Liaw Apr 8, 2022 ▶ 6:49 20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
Apr 8, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Liaw: IVP Invested Over $100M into Aiven After $16M Initial Check
“Our first investment was sixteen million dollars in size in their series B. They've now gone on to raise a C and a C one. Now we have over a hundred million dollars invested.”
Eric Liaw Apr 8, 2022 ▶ 18:15 20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
Feb 13, 2023 neutral
Insight
Loverro: VCs should heavily fund good companies or give zero capital
“If it's a good company, give them a lot of capital, and if it's not, zero. That's probably the right decision framework.”
Tom Loverro Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 13:02 Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 13, 2023 positive
Insight
Loverro: Startup bridge rounds must provide at least six months runway
“A good bridge round at least six months. So I would ask really hard questions about any bridge round that's, you know, measured in weeks or a month or two.”
Tom Loverro Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 12:03 Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 13, 2023 positive
Insight
Loverro: Marketing dollars are more effective in downturns as CAC falls
“The marketing spend that you have now is so much more powerful Then the marketing spend you had say during 21. Why? Your competition has pulled back. They're not bidding on keywords. So the CAC is down.”
Tom Loverro Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 30:34 Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 13, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Loverro: IVP announced multiple 2022 deals at 10-15x forward ARR
“We've, we announced multiple deals last year in 2022, where they were priced at something like 10 to 15 times forward ARR.”
Tom Loverro Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 6:57 Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 13, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Loverro: The tech market frenzy of 2020-2021 is not coming back
“The craziness that went on in 2020 and 21 isn't coming back”
Tom Loverro Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 2:19 Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 13, 2023
Insight
Loverro: Startups should finish fundraising with 6-7 months runway remaining
“My rule of thumb is you should start raising by 12 months. If you have 12 months of capital left, you're in the red zone. Now, does that mean you need to hit go and speak to every venture firm with exactly 365 days, you know, to go? No. But it means your strat…”
Tom Loverro Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 26:44 Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 13, 2023 bearish
Disclosure
Loverro: IVP saw two potential down rounds in a single week
“We're seeing, I would call it a trickle, but like a noticeable uptick from Q-four in deal flow, and we saw two potential down rounds this week.”
Tom Loverro Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 5:42 Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 13, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Loverro: IVP took a disproportionate amount of liquidity in 2021
“We did feel a little bit like that in 21, and so we took a disproportionate amount of liquidity in 21.”
Tom Loverro Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 25:48 Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 13, 2023 bullish
Disclosure
Loverro: Passing on Fivetran cost hundreds of millions in missed gains
“Biggest mistakes in investing are not doing the things that make you a lot of money, because the opportunity cost there so far outweighs anything else. So I feel like my biggest mistake in the last couple years was not investing in an entrepreneur named George…”
Tom Loverro Feb 13, 2023 ▶ 48:00 Tom Loverro: The Ultimate Startup Survival Guide for 2023 | 20VC #977 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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