Jon Staenberg
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Staenberg recently invested in recipe app Kitchenbowl and fertility app Kindara
“Well, we talked a little bit about it. Kitchen bowl. Although I also just did a deal called Kindara, which is a mobile app. Yeah, Kindara, which is a women's mobile fertility app. It's both software and hardware.”
Staenberg requires warm introductions or shared investor networks to review pitches
“If someone doesn't come to me through someone I know, Or has a, has an ecosystem of investors that I know, it's very hard for me to take a look at.”
Jon Staenberg discloses his personal investment in AngelList
“For full disclosure, I am an investor in AngelList.”
Staenberg: AngelList and OurCrowd each raised over $100M in 2014
“I think in the last year, both of them had over a hundred million dollars raised through their vehicles.”
Staenberg: Active major VC funds have dropped from 3,000 to under 1,000
“There used to be close to 3000 major venture funds, and today that's in the hundreds. It's certainly below a thousand.”
Staenberg: Founders should reference check VCs with failed portfolio company founders
“The tell is asking other companies they've invested in, And not just the ones that have worked out, the ones that didn't work out.”
Staenberg invested in DocuSign and Avalara during later funding rounds
“I'm in DocuSign, which I did later in Avalara, Those are two Seattle companies later.”
Staenberg: Early-stage pitch deck market size projections are made-up guesses
“I don't need to see those numbers because they're made up numbers anyway. They're guesses in many ways.”
Staenberg missed the social media wave while running a wine startup
“That's why I, quite frankly, have probably missed most of what's happened in the whole social media and much of the consumer in the last couple years, partly because I was doing my own startup in the wine business, but also because a lot of what that was about…”