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a16z told Sandbox VR to plan for two-year COVID disruption in 2020
“They told us that, no, you need to plan for two years. Nobody was planning for two years in March of 2020.”
a16z and others passed on Snyk's seed because it lacked revenue
“I got to, like, you know, ask me for the partner meeting, stay over the weekend in Andreessen Horowitz to sort of present to, and nobody converted. And everybody basically peeked behind the curtains, saw there's no revenue, says, oh, classic DevTool.”
Walker: Non-tier-one VCs face an extremely brutal fundraising market
“However nervous and anxiety ridden you are about this market, just know that your VCs are equally anxiety ridden unless they work at Andreessen or Sequoia because their fundraising process is super hard right now.”
Akhund: a16z offered Mercury a seed term sheet same-day pre-product
“We met on the Tuesday, they gave me a turn shoot on the Tuesday. So it was done. But I mean, they moved quickly and I appreciated that and like they really you know, who knows whether I would have got any other VC, but like they really did believe in, in the m…”
Eve raised $100M at a $1B valuation months after its Series A
“I mean, you raised a series A not long ago, earlier this year from A-sixteen, you raised a hundred million dollars at a billion dollar valuation a couple of months ago.”
Chen: Sandbox VR was Andreessen Horowitz's first overseas investment
“Yeah, so they led our series A at Samba. So we were Andreessen's very first overseas investment.”
Fradin: The First Investor He Pitched Offered to Fund Larridin
“I started with who did I want to work with, and I had a pretty short list of who I wanted to work with to be the lead. And I was very fortunate that the first person I talked to wanted to invest, and that was great for me, and I'm a big fan of Andreessen and o…”
Lingelbach: Hedra raised Series A exclusively from existing backer a16z
“So I didn't really go out and raise, try to raise money from anyone else. We just kind of came to an agreement with our existing investors and I've wanted to work with Matt for a really long time. Bornstein who's on our board.”
Akhund: Mercury intentionally added 60 seed investors to drive distribution
“We had 60 investors in our seed round. So I, you know, I deliberately, you know, we had recent Horowitz as a lead, and then as soon as they kind of committed, which is relatively early, I deliberately went and like Hunted people that had like a large portfolio…”
Andreessen Horowitz Seeded Illumio With $8M After Dozens of VC Rejections
“You know, we raised eight million dollars to start the company. Andreessen Horowitz took the bet on us that literally, and I am not exaggerating, I can't say hundreds, plural. I can absolutely say many, many, many dozens of venture capitalists, including just …”
Andreessen Horowitz's Executive Briefing Center Provided Indispensable Early Value
“Again, a huge shout out to Andreessen Horowitz from the very, very beginning because they had built this model that now so many of the VCs have rightfully copied. But this executive briefing center, what they called their ABC and what Andreessen, you know, did…”
Andreessen Horowitz Issued an $8M Term Sheet After One One-Hour Meeting
“I had one meeting with the partner. It lasted for less than an hour, and two weeks later, they had signed the term sheet to give us eight million dollars to start the company.”
Kausas: Pylon closed a $17M Series A in 14 days
“14 days after the start we end up getting the term sheet closing the round and then yeah, and that was seventeen million dollars so now, you know, with our basically three million that we have left from everything else, we have twenty million in the bank”