Seed Market

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20VC Assertion Contradicted
O'Driscoll: Y Combinator holds 25% seed market share
“Y Combinator has a dominant market share in the seed market, right? 25%.”
Rory O'Driscoll Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 1:10:05 Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dave Morin: Seed VC top quartile is synthetic beta; alpha lies in illegible spaces
“In the seed market, you have the multi-stage firms, And 2000 seed funds competing for the 75th percentile of all of those sort of just like you said, the mainstream stuff out there in the market. And so that effectively means you have almost perfect pricing an…”
Dave Morin Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 41:19 SaaS Companies Beware: AI Is The New UI (Anthropic's Claude Code and Cowork) · More or Less Podcast
TBPN Insight
Lessin: Indexing the seed market is economically irrational for multi-billion-dollar funds
“Historically speaking, when big funds try to index the seed market, there are two problems. One is someone wakes up and does the math and they're like, this doesn't make any sense, right? Like even if you have the million dollar check at seed, if you're trying…”
Sam Lessin Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 9:06 Sam Lessin on Meta, Artificial Intelligence, and Investing in Creators.
20VC Assertion Supported
Tisch: Multi-stage funds writing seed checks has existed for years
“That's been around for over six, seven years now at a, like, infrastructure level across the entire seed market. That isn't new.”
David Tisch Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 20:32 David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Insight
Tisch: The seed investment market will never become efficient
“I think the space I have conviction that there will never be efficiency in is the seed market. Because starting something is not efficient. Starting something is messy.”
David Tisch Feb 5, 2024 ▶ 1:37:21 David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Lemkin: Seed market has no downturn and is more vibrant than ever
“There's no downturn in seed whatsoever. No matter what, Twitter's wrong. Twitter, seed is more vibrant than ever, and we can talk about why, and seed is also split up more than ever.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 9, 2023 ▶ 10:39 Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Insight
Rob Go: Best Seed Opportunities Are Non-AI Companies and Non-Pedigreed Founders
“I think there's actually a lot of opportunity out there for non-consensus thinking. I think there are a lot of companies that aren't getting very much love because they're not AI. The teams aren't fancy founders that came from well-known companies that are jus…”
Rob Go Jun 23, 2023 ▶ 59:44 Rob Go: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Venture Fund | E1029 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC What-if
Tisch: Crossover funds would have flooded seed without 2022 downturn
“I think if you didn't have the turn of the market in 22, you were going to see enormous amounts of capital pointed at seed.”
David Tisch Feb 27, 2023 ▶ 59:27 David Tisch: The 3 Most Important Variables When Raising Your Seed Round | 20VC #983 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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