Seed Funding
topic on 5 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes
Startup Acquisition Stories 
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WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
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9 statements about Seed Funding, every show
Bijapur: 2021-2022 funding boom created startup oversupply and capital shortage
“In 21 and 22, the number of seed and series A companies that got funded. I think there's been that it sort of crowded the market, so there are a lot more companies who are still looking for those seed and series A or series B fundings. So that has led to an ov…”
Rajan Anandan: 40% of Indian seed-funded startups build for global markets
“40% of all Indian startups that raised seed funding last year, in that definition, were building for the world from day zero.”
Andreessen: Seed Investing Uses the Founder's Idea Primarily to Evaluate the Founder
“On the seed side, it's almost a hundred percent a bet on the people. You know, it's a little bit on the idea, but it's mostly the people and it's, and basically the way you evaluate the idea at that point is like, you're basically evaluating the idea as a lens…”
Gazdecki: $1 in profit beats $100M in seed funding
“One dollar profit is better than a hundred million in seed funding in my opinion.”
Asokan: Early-stage startup fundraising has become a prescribed, copy-paste process
“I feel like it's become much more cut, copy, paste today. Like, you have an idea, You pitch an early idea, you go to one of these accelerator programs, you know, you, it's very prescribed.”
Series A startups compete against all fundraising companies, not just sector peers
“And, you know, given that there is such a glut of seed money out there and so many companies being seed funded, yet this, you know, the number of Series A deals is effectively the same, if not lower year on year. What that means is, and I, this is the exact wo…”
Abrams: Seed funding volume is going down, not up
“Well, first of all, I think seed funding is actually going down, not up.”
Mitra: Average seed-to-IPO timeline has expanded beyond nine years
“On average from seed to IPO, the tenure of company or how long it takes has actually gone up. It used to be Around five to seven years, and I think it's actually north of nine now.”