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Every major Sand Hill Road VC rejected HubSpot's 2009 Series C
“It was in the throes of the recession back in and we went up and down Sand Hill road, like Darmesh and I get off the plane from Boston, landed in Sand Hill road. We're like, we got this. We're going to go up and down. It's like 20 meetings. And we go all 20 me…”
Scale Venture Partners Requires a Board Seat in Every Portfolio Deal
“And in fact, that's part of our strategy is that we always have a board seat with our companies. We're very flexible on price terms, amount of dollars invested, but we always have a board seat.”
Wienbar: Scale Has Most Female Partners Among $200M+ US VC Funds
“Scale Venture Partners has three female partners, which is, I am sorry to say, the most in the U.S. Of any firm that has more than two hundred million dollars under management.”
O'Driscoll: Scale Venture Partners targets one to two deals per partner annually
“We aim to do one to two deals per partner per year, so there's not much difference. You're taking a board seat in every case, so you're very much time limited by what you can do anyway. So it's, you know, no different than, I would say, early stage, or even th…”