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Bromberg: ICOs raise $10M to $200M via SAFTs
“Token fundraising ICOs, mostly raised on what are called SAFTS, Simple Agreements for Future Tokens... Mostly raised from hedge funds, venture funds, institutions, and again, angels putting money into these ICOs. But they're raising 10 to two hundred million d…”
Bromberg: European ICOs have raised as much capital as US ICOs
“Right now, it is a very global phenomenon, so about as much money has been raised by ICOs based in Europe as based in the United States”
Bromberg: ARDC returned 500x on DEC over 11 years
“ARDC really had what we consider to be the first venture win. So they invested in Digital Equipment Corporation and returned about 500 X in 11 years there.”
Bromberg: CRV launched at $5M and Kleiner Perkins at $7M in the 1970s
“In 1970, CRV was a five million dollar fund, and KP was a seven million dollar fund. Ah, those are smaller than most investments those funds make today in raw dollars, but that was the entire fund size at that point in the 19 seventies.”
Bromberg: VC had $12B AUM in 1996, but saw $120B invested in 2000
“In 1996, the venture industry as a whole had an AUM of about twelve billion dollars.
In the calendar year 2000, LPs put a hundred and twenty billion dollars into venture.”
Bromberg: Dot-com era VC funds commanded 30% to 40% carried interest
“Carry changed.
Funds were getting 30, sometimes even 40% carry on these deals, because there was liquid so quickly, and people couldn't put enough money into the space”
Bromberg: Between 2002 and 2009, VC returned just $220B on $205B invested
“2002 to 2009, it was about two hundred and five billion invested in venture and about two hundred and twenty billion returned”
Bromberg: Early-stage deals historically used only equity before convertible notes
“Historically, all of these deals had been done with just equity, straight equity, selling preferred stock.”