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Stebbings: Index dropped Town deal after portfolio company Instinct objected
“There was a conflict in venture that has now prevented a deal.
We've spoken about instinct being the AI assistant that's raised from index and benchmark.
Well, there's another AI assistant called town, which we just had on the show and index.
Were going to …”
Mignot: Index Ventures never passes on early-stage deals over price
“We never lose a deal or pass on a deal because of price in the early stage.”
Goldberg: Founder-led late-stage financing rounds like Front's Series C are aberrations
“At the same time, I think that's a bit of an aberration and many companies will decide to continue working with institutional leads where they get just a little bit more than you could handle from a single individual.”
Escape the City Rejected Index Ventures to Raise on Crowdcube
“A company called Escape the City, you know, they had two term sheets from VCs, one of them index ventures on the table, and they turned them down and elected to use Crowdcube to raise the money that they were after, you know, that was back in 2012”
Mignot: Index Ventures returned $30B and holds $20B+ across 30 years
“So we've been around for 30 years. We invested 11 and a half billion dollars. We've returned close to 30, and we still have 20 plus in holdings. Most of that is concentrated in eight, nine companies. We invested in probably 300, close to 400 companies over the…”
Mignot: Seven partners generated Index Ventures' top eight fund returns
“It's a very equal partnership, and, you know, even in terms of performance, so I mentioned there's like eight companies that represent the, you know, the largest share of return, They've been there has been involvement from seven partners for these eight compa…”
Index Ventures Is the Largest Shareholder in Figma, Dream Games, and Wiz
“Largest shareholder in Figma, largest shareholder in Dream Games, largest shareholder in Wiz you know, second largest shareholder in Scale.ai, Revolut.”
Danny Rimer: Etsy Scaled From 250k to Over 3M Merchants, Defying Critics
“I'll never forget investing in Etsy and folks saying, well, it's crazy. You know, they already have 250,000 merchants online, all these arts and craft stores. Like, how many more can there be? And I think we're three million plus at this point in counting.”
Enterprise AI Startup Town Valued at $1B by Index and Benchmark
“Consensus status as well in the B to B world, because town, which is kind of the B to B enterprise alternative has also been funded to the tune of a billion dollar price by index. And I think it was benchmark who co led that round.”
Stebbings: Chai Discovery raised $400M at $3.8B valuation
“Four hundred million at a 3.8 billion dollar valuation led by Index, Kleiner, Sequoia, Dimension.”
Martin Mignot: Index Ventures splits investments evenly between Europe and US
“We consistently invest about half in Europe and half in the US”
11 of 13 Pear Launchpad Companies Raised Top 2016 Seed Rounds
“So, you know, last year we had about 13 companies 11 of them ended up raising a seed round from great people. Accel, first round, Index, just really, really top name people. And the other two went back to school.”
Deliveroo raised over $1.7 billion prior to its 2021 IPO
“Prior to their IPO earlier this year, Will raised over 1.7 billion dollars for the company from some of the best in the business, including Excel, Index, General Catalyst, Green Oaks and more.”
Common Room raises over $50M from Index, Greylock, and 20VC
“To date, Linda has raised over fifty million dollars with Common Room, from the likes of Danny Reimer at Index, Sarah Grew at Greylock, Dylan Field at Figma, Dick Costolo, and of course, TwentyVC Fund.”
Robinhood raised $5.6 billion total, including a $2.4 billion emergency round
“To date, Vlad has raised over 5.6 billion dollars with Robin Hood, including a 2.4 billion dollar raise just this month, and some of their investors include the likes of Ribbit, Sequoia, Green Oaks, Index, IVP, Thrive, GV, and more incredible names.”
Danny Rimer Clarifies Index Ventures' Founding History and Initial Investors
“Yeah, so to be clear, I wasn't one of the founders of Index, though many members with my last name were. So probably my dad gets the original credit because his investors and his bond brokerage business ended up being the first investors at Index, and two of t…”
Index Ventures participated in Crowdbnk's fundraising round for Gojimo
“We just finished raising money for Gojimo, which had index ventures as their principal investors In the earlier round, and part of their next partners followed on in the round that we did.”
Index Ventures Participated in JustPark's Crowdcube Crowdfunding Round
“We've got a company on the site at the moment, Just Park. You know, they've had investment from Index Ventures and BMW in, in the past, and Index are actually participating in this round.”
Squarespace raised over $948M prior to its May 2021 IPO
“To date, Anthony has raised over nine hundred and forty eight million dollars for the company from the likes of General Atlantic, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, culminating in their IPO in May 2021.”
Sonos raised over $450 million prior to its IPO
“Prior to their IPO, they raised over four hundred and fifty million from the likes of Mike Volpe at Index, Satish at Redpoint, and eVentures to name a few.”
Ilkka Paananen raised over $143M for Supercell prior to Tencent acquisition
“Prior to Tencent acquiring a majority stake in the company at a reported 10.2 billion dollar acquisition price, Ilka raised over one hundred and forty three million dollars for the company from Excel, Index, Atomico, IVP, LVP, Initial and Lifeline to name a fe…”