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Harrison: Index Ventures bars weapons investments and militarizing portfolio drones
“Index, as far as I know, still to this day, has a clause where they can't invest in anything that is a weapon or could be used as a weapon, and I remember they had investments in, in companies like a drone company, where they uniquely could have contracted a p…”
Index Ventures preferred holding Nasty Gal at cost over a down round
“Index preferred to hold nasty gal at cost than do a down round.”
Raanan: Wiz raised a $20M seed syndicate at a $66M post-money valuation
“The company I was the seed investor for that company together with Doug Leone from Sequoia and Sherdul Shah from Index Ventures. And together we created a syndicate of twenty million dollars that Value the company at around, I think the number was sixty six mi…”
Index Ventures sourced and co-led the seed round for Bridge
“That led us to kind of like source and co-lead the seed for bridge, which eventually got acquired by Stripe after I had since left.”
Kurzweil, Shen, and Goldberg left top VC platforms to form a partnership
“The recent examples I think are most interesting would be like Ethan from Bessemer, Christina Shen from Andreessen Horwitz, and Mark Goldberg from Index Ventures joining, leaving those large platforms to form like a real partnership, right?”