Khattar: AdvantEdge Fund 2 writes $150k to $500k initial seed checks
Kunal Khattar · 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 19 | Kunal Khattar, Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders · Oct 3, 2019 · at 25:11
Kunal Khattar, Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders, discusses check sizes and deployment strategies for their second fund.
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“So one is what we refer to as seed investing, where we will cut checks from everywhere from about you know, 150 K to about 500 K would be the first check size, and we would continue to prorate on at least two to three rounds in each of those deals capping out at about you know, two, two and a half, three million.”
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