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119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st

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Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st

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Post by ig1 »

dmor wrote: post #10
ig1 wrote: post #7

The Series A crunch isn't caused by a decrease of Series A rounds, from various studies (from cbinsights and others) Series A investment is actually relatively stable. What's changed is that you're getting far more companies who have raised money at the seed level. So the percentage of companies getting on follow-on investment at Series A is dropping while the absolute number isn't. Also doing it over a 30 day period…

Whether there is a series A crunch or not doesn't concern me (no negative tone intended, just want to clarify my intent), and I wasn't trying to validate that it exists with this data set. Raising a venture round is hard, and my hope it that this list helps entrepreneurs focus their efforts on active investors. Here is the data you requested, starting January 1st (225 active series A investors): https://docs.google.c…

My comment wasn't in anyway intended to be negative on the list, more just a broader comment on the Series A crunch. I think your list is certainly a valuable resource for people looking to raise venture money!

Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st

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Post by dmor »

ig1 wrote: post #11
dmor wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whether there is a series A crunch or not doesn't concern me (no negative tone intended, just want to clarify my intent), and I wasn't trying to validate that it exists with this data set. Raising a venture round is hard, and my hope it that this list helps entrepreneurs focus their efforts on active investors. Here is the data you requested, starting January 1st (225 active series A investors): https://docs.google.c…

My comment wasn't in anyway intended to be negative on the list, more just a broader comment on the Series A crunch. I think your list is certainly a valuable resource for people looking to raise venture money!

Sorry, my choice of "doesn't concern me" language probably came across badly.

Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st

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Post by ig1 »

dmor wrote: post #12
ig1 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My comment wasn't in anyway intended to be negative on the list, more just a broader comment on the Series A crunch. I think your list is certainly a valuable resource for people looking to raise venture money!

Sorry, my choice of "doesn't concern me" language probably came across badly.

No worries. You might find the vcdelta page interesting as well, it tracks changes to VC portfolio pages so captures rounds that may not be in Crunchbase:

http://neuvc.com/labs/vcdelta/

Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st

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Post by [deleted] »

richardjordan wrote: post #5

What amazes me - or at least what really leaps out at me - from this is how high Andreessen Horowitz is relative to the other giants, in the measure "Historical Total Investment in Rounds Participated In", given how recently they were founded. I know for a lot of entrepreneurs they've become the number one "dream" VC to be funded by in the "if you could pick any VC to fund you who would it be" drinking game. Great li…

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Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st

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Post by dirtyaura »

richardjordan wrote: post #5

What amazes me - or at least what really leaps out at me - from this is how high Andreessen Horowitz is relative to the other giants, in the measure "Historical Total Investment in Rounds Participated In", given how recently they were founded. I know for a lot of entrepreneurs they've become the number one "dream" VC to be funded by in the "if you could pick any VC to fund you who would it be" drinking game. Great li…

No doubt that A&H is very active, but it should be noted that they participated in Groupon's 950M Series D, which is 40% of their value in that measure.

Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st

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Post by [deleted] »

rdipasup wrote: post #4

Purely conjectural, but the Series A crunch that the media likes to sell us on, really really fear-mongering. If you look at the spread of $ to startups, it's on a constant rise. The problem here isn't the "crunch", but rather how information is perceived and understood. The Series A crunch MAY possibly be true on a linear perspective, but falsely on a logarithmic look.

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Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st

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Post by mindcrime »

dmor wrote: post #10
ig1 wrote: post #7

The Series A crunch isn't caused by a decrease of Series A rounds, from various studies (from cbinsights and others) Series A investment is actually relatively stable. What's changed is that you're getting far more companies who have raised money at the seed level. So the percentage of companies getting on follow-on investment at Series A is dropping while the absolute number isn't. Also doing it over a 30 day period…

Whether there is a series A crunch or not doesn't concern me (no negative tone intended, just want to clarify my intent), and I wasn't trying to validate that it exists with this data set. Raising a venture round is hard, and my hope it that this list helps entrepreneurs focus their efforts on active investors. Here is the data you requested, starting January 1st (225 active series A investors): https://docs.google.c…

and my hope it that this list helps entrepreneurs focus their efforts on active investors.

I'd rather see them focus on customers. :-)

Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st

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Post by rafaelc »

Thanks for putting this together! The easier and more accurate way to decide if an investor is active or not is to see when their last fund was raised. This is publicly available in multiple places, such as CrunchBase.

The reason this makes sense is that a typical top VC fund deploys the vast majority of their capital in the first 3 or so years of that fund. So for example, as a VC at a firm that raised their last fund in that time frame, my mandate is to find and assist the best possible startups and in the process also fund them. So this means that a fund with that kind of characteristic isn't going to sit on the money - which means that any firm that raised a new fund in the last 2-3 years will most certainly be actively investing.

Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st

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Post by nsiemsen »

This is great! I've been working on a little project to pull in this data from CrunchBase in an interactive format.

http://peburn.com/

Data is only updated through March 28, 2013. According to what I have pulled from CrunchBase, both overall VC investment activity, and Series A are on 2011 and 2012 pace (through the first quarter of 2013). This site is a work in progress (I cannot design and I'm at my wit's end on layout), so I didn't want to share it quite yet, but this seems like a relevant time to do so. Feedback is welcomed. I have a ton of views of the data I want to implement and I ultimately want to start aggregating all the publicly-available VC Fundraising (not just company fundraising) and VC performance data here as well.

Anyways, hope it adds to the conversation.

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