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Assertion Supported
Bahat: Very few multi-stage VCs historically produce top seed-stage winners
“We did an analysis looking at the top company performers. And what you see is that since the era that seed funds have existed and who funded them at the seed. And what you see is that some of them were funded by seed funds, first round true others funded some …”
Roy Bahat Oct 18, 2019 ▶ 18:52 20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
Prediction Held up
James Cham: ML SaaS will enable cross-company insights without sharing raw data
“There's going to be something, some similar insight and some similar buzzword about the separation of models and the ability to share insights of models between companies while at the same time not actually sharing data.”
James Cham Oct 19, 2016 ▶ 12:21 20VC: Greenfield Opportunities For Machine Learning, Why Massive Corporates Finally See It's Potential & Why VC's Investment Decision Making Process Needs To Change with James Cham, Partner @ Bloomberg Beta
Prediction Held up
Bahat: Bloomberg Beta Will Never Back a Portfolio Company's Competitor
“The competitive lanes issue, which is if I back you, I'm not going to back your competitors. And so that means that every time we write a check, we're giving up the opportunity cost of serving another customer and of backing other companies in that space.”
Roy Bahat Oct 18, 2019 ▶ 6:49 20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
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