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Ehrenberg: Peak market fear will cut seed valuation caps under $10M
“When the fear really hits, the really smart seed stage investors are going to go in hard. Because that's when you get the best opportunities. You get great founders, and you get great businesses at prices that are a half. Of what companies were getting, you kn…”
Roger Ehrenberg Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 18:06 20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
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Ehrenberg: IA Ventures limits portfolios to 25 companies per fund
“Our adaptation of that is, you know, we're a very small firm taking an artisanal approach to venture investing where, you know, Brad, Jesse, and I, we have no junior people. We each do our own work. That by going deep in two to three companies a year each over…”
Roger Ehrenberg Mar 1, 2017 ▶ 5:20 20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
Assertion Supported
Ehrenberg: The Trade Desk raised multiple extensions before its Series A
“Some of our best companies have actually raised kind of extension rounds. The Trade Desk, you know, which is now, you know, trading at well over a billion dollars, they needed a few extensions before they were able to kind of raise their Series A.”
Roger Ehrenberg Mar 1, 2017 ▶ 13:54 20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
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Ehrenberg: Seed fund deployment timelines will extend beyond 18 months
“If you're talking about seed, I think that 12 to 18 month time horizons will be extended.”
Roger Ehrenberg Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 16:42 20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
Assertion Supported
IA Ventures partners make only 1 to 3 investments each per year
“We do One, two, three, each of the three of us at iVentures each year.”
Jesse Beyroutey Jul 22, 2019 ▶ 15:48 20VC: IA Ventures' Jesse Beyroutey on Game Theory and How It Impacts Investor Mindset, How To Avoid "The Pressure To Deploy" Today In Venture & Why Ownership Is The Single Most Important Parameter When Investing
Assertion Supported
IA Ventures raised $475M across four seed funds
“Roger is a founding partner at IA Ventures, one of the most successful seed funds of the last decade, with four hundred and seventy-five million dollars across their four funds.”
Harry Stebbings Jan 31, 2022 ▶ 0:16 20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
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