Multi Stage VC Firm
topic on 1 show · 3 statements across 3 episodes
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Shakir: Multi-stage investors skipping follow-on rounds creates major signaling risks
“It's going to look badly if they were in your prior round and don't do the next round. That ends up being a flag in a lot of cases.”
Vrionis: Multi-stage VCs write seed checks merely for Series A optionality
“I personally think that the stage agnostic firms, as you pointed out, are buying optionality, that they're way too smart to give up those deals before what is their sweet spot now, which are these 15, 20, twenty-five million dollar series A's. They don't want …”
Shah: Multi-stage VCs require 10% seed ownership to justify partner time
“What I do think is that it's tough for one of these larger VC firms to warrant a partner's time and brand experience extension to a seed round unless they own about 10% as an option, because what you're saying then is like, I'm going to hold 10% in pro rata, a…”