Series A Round

“The reality is that, you know, even A rounds are harder to come by here in twenty-twenty-six. So I think the misconception is that money is easy to come by. It's not, right?”

“Every founder wants to raise 20 or thirty million in their A now. No one wants to raise an eight, the eight million dollar series A is now three safe notes, right?”

“Most of the money at Series A is completely wasted, right?”

“Which was one and a half times oversubscribed. I don't want to overstate.”

“When at a seed round or a series A round, when you're walking away at price, it is a bit of lack of conviction, and you really should be looking at the mirror and say, why don't I have conviction? Because if you call, if you make the right call at seed, you're…”

“The series A trend that I noticed was the hot A's absolutely do correlate to hot B's, weirdly. The hot seeds often don't. Hot A's very commonly moved to hot B's.”

“In order to raise that money, you have to pitch a story of like, how are you going to get this thing to a hundred million dollars in revenues? Like kind of the generic, you go raise a C round, an A round. One of the things that people might ask is like, what's…”

“We don't want to lead seed rounds. We don't want to lead series A rounds. We want to be sort of second or third biggest check on a cap table.”

“Over the last six years, what we've seen is that, you know, seed investing has really essentially become the new, you know, series A round of financing for the companies.”

“You could argue that probably the biggest drop off happens between the seed and the a rather than the a and the b. And I think that's just because there is so much seed money and there are so many seed funds compared to a funds where, you know, you really, tha…”