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Prediction Held up
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…”
Topher Conway Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 14:17 20VC: Why We Are Valuation & Ownership Insensitive, Why We Do Not Take Board Seats & The Effects Of The Series A Crunch with Topher Conway, Co-Managing Partner @ SV Angel
Prediction Partly held up
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.”
Garry Tan Dec 14, 2016 ▶ 20:00 20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
Assertion Supported
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”
Garry Tan Apr 1, 2019 ▶ 5:26 20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
Assertion Partly supported
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…”
Harry Stebbings Jun 17, 2016 ▶ 0:27 20VC: Raising $150m, Meeting Yuri Milner & Revolutionising Mobile Finance with Sasha Orloff @ LendUp
Assertion Supported
Hims has raised over $45M in venture capital funding
“That's raised over forty-five million dollars in VC funding from some of the very best in the business, including Thrive Capital, Forerunner Ventures, IVP, Redpoint, and SV Angel, just to name a few.”
Harry Stebbings May 11, 2018 ▶ 0:25 20VC: Hims' Andrew Dudum on The Scaling Playbook of The Fastest Growing Mens Wellness Brand, How To Be Truly Innovative In Today's World of Online Marketing & Raising at a $200m Valuation within Year 1
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