Seed Deal
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Rampell: One of his personal seed investments is marked up 200x
“For a single deal, there's a seed deal that I did that it's probably marked up at like, 200 X right now.”
Naimi: Indexing all 1,000 2008-2011 seed deals would return 3x from Uber
“If you look between, like, it was either, I think, like, 2008 and 2011, there were about 1000 seed deals funded in that time frame, or at least publicly announced seed deals in that time frame, so there's some survivorship bias there, but what you need to ulti…”
Naimi: Multi-stage tier-one VCs will take 10% seed ownership minimum
“Pretty much every multistage tier one VC firm will do a seed deal at 10% if they have to. If you push them down to six or seven, it's just not worth it. They'd rather wait for the Series A.”
Mohnot: Seed-stage founders do not need growth marketing skills in-house
“Like she can hire a growth marketer. That's, I don't think that like, I don't think she needs that skill set as a co, as a co-founder. Like this is, I mean, this is a seed deal.”
Rohan: Seed investors had 50% to 75% deal coverage around 2010
“When David and I started, like, this ecosystem was so small, like, the seed deals would almost pass through everyone's inbox, like, almost everyone, it was like, you almost had, like, 50 to 75% coverage of any given deal.”
Median seed deal sizes and pre-money valuations have risen 2.5x
“In terms of my area of the waterfront, it looks like the amount that's being raised in seed deals, like the medians, Has gone up by about two and a half X. The pre monies have gone up again, two and a half X.”
Seed rounds in 2000 were $300,000 and required a working prototype
“When I was in the business 20 years ago, a seed deal was 300,000 dollars. And a C deal meant that there's actually a deck with probably a prototype, what people might call a Series A today.”