Rob Lacher
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Lacher: BioNTech raised $130 million seed round led by Strüngmanns
“It was a hundred thirty million seed round led by the Strugmann brothers, who were basically farmer entrepreneurs.”
Lacher: Multi-stage funds always preempt Series A for top seed investments
“Everyone knows if the deal is amazing, they bloody preempt it.”
Lacher: Visionaries Club Co-Invests With Multi-Stage Funds in 20% of Deals
“We team up a lot with multi-stage funds at seed. I'd say 20% of our deals.”
Lacher: Two-thirds of European founders reject US multi-stage seed term sheets
“I see, to be honest, two thirds of the founders at seed stage that have those term sheets, rather going for European seed fund setup, because they want to keep the A-Round open to choose from those funds.”
Lacher: Visionaries aims for 5 to 10 seed deals per year
“We want to rather have maybe five to 10 investments a year in a seed fund, spending time with the founders and then just having maybe 40 deals and just knowing maybe the name of one or two founders.”
Lacher: Visionaries targets 10–15% ownership in 80% of seed investments
“We say 80% of our seed portfolio is 10 to 15% ownership and 20% will leave room if they're exceptional teams”
Lacher: Poaching experienced VCs creates an average index fund
“If, you can do it super easy and say, look, I just poach from other funds. I hire people who have been three years in VC. They have the networks. They know how to look at deals. You just get An average index of all the other funds.”