119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st
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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
#2Awesome. Thank you for the info!
Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st
#3This is a lot more than I would have thought. I wonder who came up with the "Series A Crunch" theory. It really doesn't seem to have hit yet, if ever.
Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st
#4Purely 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.
Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st
#5What 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 list. Love the work you've been doing on all this stuff recently. It's interesting reading.
Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st
#6Purely 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.
My understanding is that the Series A Crunch exists because the number of companies at the seed stage is growing at an even faster rate, so over time there are more and more seed stage companies competing for Series A funding.
Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st
#7The 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 probably isn't long enough to take into account the vagaries of randomness (rounds may happen erratically, there's typically a delay before round gets added to crunchbase, etc.) - probably makes more sense to do it from start of year.
Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st
#8The 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…
I think a16z is dominant because while there are specific other VCs who may be on different lists of "best networking investor" or "best security investor" or "best travel site for cats investor..." or whatever, but a16z is basically on every list, at or near the top, for every niche I care about. (EDIT: oops, this was a reply to the other comment on the page)
Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st
#9This is a lot more than I would have thought. I wonder who came up with the "Series A Crunch" theory. It really doesn't seem to have hit yet, if ever.
If I put on my tinfoil hat tight enough to cut off my circulation, then
a rumor/myth of a "Series A Crunch" which makes funding seem dear is in
the best interest of the VC's providing such funding. Though I don't
know any of them, I'm sure must be at least some VC's with the integrity
to say that from their perspective, they don't see a crunch. But it
would be equally fair for them to say that they see a whole lot more
startups happening recently, so competition between startups resulting
in price/terms pressure does exist even if the subjective term "crunch"
is a bit overstated.
Since I don't try to keep up with every new startup that is created, my perspective might be wrong, and my assertion of there being more startups now days could also be wrong. None the less, it sure seems that way to me from my casual reading.
Re: 119 Investors Actively Doing Series A Deals Since March 1st
#10The 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.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ApqWF3CqjgjSdFB...