Kim: Average seed valuations hovered around $10M to $11M recently
Eurie Kim · Roundtable #6 with Rebecca Kaden, Nicole Quinn, Eurie Kim, Harry Stebbings | E1083 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Nov 17, 2023 · at 19:21
Eurie Kim is a Managing Partner at Forerunner Ventures, discussing seed valuation benchmarks on a 20VC roundtable.
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“We were joking just before we started that, you know, I had a two on seven back in the day that, you know, I'm still working with now and is doing really well, but we're talking to 10 and 11 of the last two years as your average seed price.”
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