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SV Angel Is Valuation and Ownership Insensitive at the Seed Stage
“So we don't really think about it That much at all. Unless it's something totally out of whack or, you know, out of line with where the company is in the founder's background, that's probably the only time that it'll really play into our decision. Other than t…”
SV Angel Refuses Board Seats to Maintain Founder Alignment
“We also don't take board seats. We think that, you know, we always want to align ourselves with founders and be the advocate for them. We think that at some point in the business boardroom will get contentious and founder will, and the board won't agree on som…”
SV Angel Flags Deals if Valuation Talk Exceeds Five Minutes
“You know, if we spend more than, you know, we've always had this kind of internal rule is if, You know, if we spend more than five minutes talking about valuation with a founder, then something's wrong. Something's awry there.”
Startups Should Wait Until Post-Seed to Construct Formal Boards
“You can always bring on angel investors and advisory board members earlier on in the life cycle of the company, but when it comes to really constructing a board, you know, doing that post series seed going into the series a, you know, that's probably when it's…”
The Series A Crunch Was Overall Healthy for the Startup Ecosystem
“And, you know, one of the byproducts was it really forced companies to focus on their core metrics. What really happened in the, over the last couple of years is, you know, series a investors and B started really focusing on, you know, is this a good business?…”
Valuation Caps Do Not Matter for Breakout Venture Hits
“You know, if the company's, if it's going to be a big, successful company, you know, if you're investing at a six million cap or an eight million dollar cap, it doesn't really matter.”
SV Angel Sees a 40% Portfolio Failure Rate
“We have about 40% of our portfolio goes out of business and that's fine.”
Ferriss invested in SV Angel primarily to receive Silicon Valley intelligence reports
“But the reason I invested 25 or fifty-k, whatever it was, in SV Angel, and their approach, I mean, it ended up being pretty smart on a lot of levels, was because I got a report card on pretty much everything in the Valley regularly. And that allowed me to go h…”
SV Angel Receives 8 to 15 Referred Deals Daily
“We see on average eight to 15 companies per day referred to us all from within our network.”
SV Angel Writes $100K–$200K Checks and Never Leads Rounds
“Like I said, our checks are smaller. They're a hundred to 200 K checks. So we rely on all the other investors to participate in the round. We never lead rounds ourselves.”
Initialized targets 5% to 10% seed ownership to accommodate co-investors
“Between five, if we can target five to 10% ownership initially, that's still enough to bring in the SV Angels or the Fuel Capitals or other great investors that we especially like to work with.”
Tan: Yuri Milner offered $150K to all YC W11 companies
“That was the batch that Yuri Milner and SV Angel came along and said, we're going to give everyone 150,000 dollars to every single company in that batch. It was about 40 companies”
SV Angel Intentionally Reduced Its Fund Size to Write $100K Checks
“And for us, that's our latest fund. We actually reduce the size of it so that we have the flexibility to invest whether it's pre-seed or seed, you know, so we can make that 100,000 dollar investment where it's really just the founders that we, that we're inves…”
LendUp raised $150 million in January 2016
“LendUp raised an incredible hundred and fifty million dollars in January, 2016, according to the trusty PE Hub, from the likes of SV Angel, Yuri Milner, our friends at Sousa Ventures with Chad Byers, who I've got to thank for making the intro today, and then G…”