Moehring: AngelList scales seed investing by decentralizing general partners
Philipp Moehring · 20 VC: Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe on Scaling Seed Stage Funding and Why 500 Is Not Your Traditional VC · Jan 6, 2016 · at 12:47
Philipp Moehring, Head of AngelList Europe, describes how AngelList's marketplace structure transforms venture capital by allowing institutional capital to back hundreds of syndicate leads globally.
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“This is really where AngelList is really a very classical example of how a marketplace can take over an industry or can take part in an industry where we can now do something because of the structure of syndicates, because of the structure of the investments that are being made that couldn't have been done before, which is invest in seed at scale. Because there are, if you think about syndicate leads as, you know, general partners of a fund, there are now hundreds of general Partners for syndicates running around all over the world investing in companies and these larger funds simply back those syndicate leads at scale, which is something that couldn't have been done before.”
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