US VCs
topic on 4 shows · 7 statements across 6 episodes
the Pitch 
the Neon Show 
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7 statements about US VCs, every show
Holland: Sovereign wealth funds back flying cars as US VCs retreat
“There's been a lot of carnage in the flying car space recently. I mean, it seems like almost every week somebody can't raise another fund. There's a lot of movement actually going to Dubai now in that sector. So, so the sovereign wealth funds are starting to p…”
Tobias: Startups in foreign countries backed only by US VCs raise concerns
“I get a little concerned when I see only US VCs in an, in a foreign country.”
Rayapati: Minjar rejected a $5 million term sheet from a US VC
“After that, we got one term sheet for five million. Again, we said no, we didn't take that... So we had one of the US VC who wanted to put five million but me and Anand were got little scared thinking, man, what do you do with five million, right?”
Stebbings: US multi-stage VCs recently won three hot European seed deals
“Over the last three months, I've seen three deals now where US VCs multistage have come in and won against seed VCs in Europe and multistage VCs competing at seed, and I haven't seen that before. Three in three months where they're like supremely hot deals. An…”
Stebbings: European VCs suck at telling inspiring stories compared to US VCs
“European VCs suck at telling stories. I know, often people are like, oh, why, why didn't you have more European VCs? Honestly, they really do not articulate stories well, and they're not inspiring, exciting, they don't resonate in a way that US VCs absolutely …”
UK VCs are excessively risk-averse compared to US investors
“I do feel in general, there's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy happening there where VCs don't really want to take that much of a risk. And so contrary to what it's like in the States, I feel like they often will offer something like a hundred or 200,000 in …”
De Masi: US VCs Overinflate Portfolio Holdings Compared to European Peers
“In the US, VCs hold everything at these tremendously optimistic valuations as if everything's liquid and it's all getting sold at the highest comp they've found out there with the one sale in the sector, and every entrepreneur is convinced that they're sitting…”