SignalFire

“We're using technology to enable discovery, competitive intelligence, contextualization, collaboration, and ultimately support of our portfolio companies. So, so we look more like Uber than we look like Mattermark in that sense.”

“We lead every deal.”

“I'd still believe in, you know, heavily in human loop systems, and so we're not trying to assess the quality of the founder, you know, with using data.”

“At the seed stage, we don't take board seats.”

“Today we have 17 full-time people on the team, and we have more engineers and data scientists than any other function.”

“And as a result of that, we have an unbelievably high win rate against the top venture firms in the industry and almost always win head to head against the seed funds because typically we're competing with, you know, two guys and a dog and we're bringing an ar…”

“I hired six researchers for a year in 2009 to study precisely that question. And we interviewed over 500 founders and 170 funds from seed to buyout hedge and every major venture fund in between.”

“So, you know, in the research we did, interviewing over 500 founders, recruiting was the number one pain point of almost all the founders”

“Right now, many founders will tell you that if a VC is not harmful to the company, that's already a success. And I say the expectations should be higher from founders because while a VC cannot play the chess game for you and move the pieces. They have seen a l…”

“Schrodinger's VC is what I call a VC who preaches a lot of help, especially before winning a deal. But then if you ask the founders, they will tell you they added no value.”