Hale Bullen
Investment Manager, PS27 Ventures. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Hale Bullen is an Investment Manager at PS27 Ventures, where he evaluates early-stage investments in SaaS, FinTech, and HealthTech. He previously served as a U.S. Navy nuclear operations officer and founded the startup The Jacket Club.
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Everything Hale Bullen said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Bullen: $500M VC funds are oversaturated and harvest fees for bloated teams
“Oftentimes at that point you have a team that's just oversaturated, way too large, and you're paying ultimately harvesting fees to kind of feed that large ecosystem and team that's been built out.”
Bullen: PS27 Targets Deeply Embedded 'Sticky Plumbing' Enterprise Software
“And those are the kinds of software companies that we like to invest in. You're never going to know their name outside of the announcement that we've invested. They're just going to go ahead and keep doing their thing year in and year out as employees churn, a…”
PS27 Ventures sets initial investment threshold at $240K to $300K ARR
“And typically we like to call that about 240,000 to 300,000 in ARR. That's kind of our initial threshold outside of, hey, does it fall categorically into what we're looking to invest in?”
Bullen: Founders building software companies without software backgrounds raise red flags
“If someone's op creating a software company, they have no software background whatsoever. It's kind of a bit of a red flag.”
Bullen: Verbose founder pitches signal less attractive investment opportunities
“Typically, the longer and more verbose that story is initially, the less attractive of an investment it is for us.”
Bullen: PS27 grades founders on 40 traits using AI after every call
“We use AI every single step in our process from the initial call that we have with the founder To, we actually do have kind of a proprietary trading or not trading, but rather a proprietary grading formula that we have for the founders that we run after every …”
Bullen: xAI's Grok is an incredible tool for VC competitive analysis
“Grok AI from XAI has been an incredible tool, especially today when it comes to doing competitive analysis. So my personal favorite and a shout out to them.”
Bullen: PS27 urges founders to raise $2M-$3M instead of larger rounds
“So oftentimes we're trying to move away from where we started, right, with participating in some of the larger rounds and trying to coach the founder and saying, hey, maybe you don't necessarily need as large of a funding round as what you previously may have …”
PS27 Ventures: Firm plans to raise consecutive $20M to $25M funds
“We are going to raise consecutive 20 to twenty five million dollar funds And just keep participating in the same sector. What do we know? We know pre Series A early stage companies, and we don't need to raise a hundred million dollar fund to be successful.”
Bullen: Sub-40% founder equity post-conversion is a red flag for PS27
“So a founder that's less, or co-foundering aggregate, that's let, has less than 40% equity on the cap table post conversions of any notes or other debt that may be on the cap table to before a priced round. That's a red flag to us, right?”
Bullen: PS27 expects portfolio companies to double revenue every 6 to 12 months
“We expect that every single company that we invest in is going to be able to at least double their revenue every six months to a year.”
Bullen: PS27 anticipates portfolio company exits within 3 to 5 years
“It's a 10 year fund, right? That's pretty standard, but we are anticipating exiting a company in three to five years, right? That's kind of the timeline that we're looking for.”
Bullen: PS27 drops deals after two months if profitability path is missing
“If there's one of the kind of final metrics that we grade on at that, that last session, the workout is, Hey, is there a clear path to break even in profitability? And if there is no clear line of sight to it, oftentimes we won't invest. Even now, even though …”
Bullen: VCs are reversing fund stage-creep to specialize in early rounds
“We've actually seen almost a reversal in that cycle where family offices and VC firms are re looking at these overinflated valuations and going backwards and saying, Hey, you know, maybe this traditional life cycle of a firm doesn't make as much sense as it us…”
Bullen: OnRamp cut CVS product onboarding time from six to two months
“One of our portfolio companies, OnRamp is actually leveraging AI agents to onboard new products at companies wherever they may be implementing that technology. So as a quick example, CVS, who's one of their clients, whenever they have a new drug that they want…”
Bullen: PS27 Ventures avoids investing in crypto, Web3, and NFTs
“We do not invest in crypto. It's kind of, or web three, NFTs. It's been kind of one of the areas that we'd like to avoid”
Bullen: PS27 requires portfolio companies to join weekly sales calls for a year
“We require that every single one of the companies that we invest in is part of what we call our sales call process for the first year after investment.”
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