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If you didn’t grow up with folks investing in startups, you might discover that a friends & family round feels like personal recourse debt, no matter how it’s structured. This makes failure and down rounds extra stressful for some founders (me included). Solutions: 1. make F&F whole from dilution of down round with your founder shares. 2. give F&F founder shares in your next startup. The best solution: don’t raise from F&F, raise from your community of early adopters, collaborators, and folks who care about the problem you are solving. Community-led growth and venture capital: that’s Slyk IO

This perfectly sums up one of my frustrations with VCs investing in early stages making it difficult for angels to effectively invest in early stage startups. The seed stage has blurred to pre-seed, post-seed, peach seed, mango seed, and whatever other kind of seed you want to name. When VCs invest too early in a start up, they also require more process and rigour than what is helpful for founders to be nimble and focus on getting to product, market, fit. We are seeing a lot of downrounds right now along with major cap table restructurings as a result of too much dumb money going in at the early stages. DC Palter

As DC Palter and Terri Hanson Mead have experienced these challenges as being part of the VC and Angel Investing side of Life Sciences, we at SVA Life Sciences have also encountered too many early stage startups that have received generous VC & Seed funding but have no real plan to efficiently and effectively use it. Hiring talent, or more importantly these days deploying purpose-built, data-driven technology that won't deplete their funds, is key to preserving and stretching your capital investment. An eye towards scalability is critical, not to mention the use of AI. We at SVA call it finding the "Easy Button" from our years of experience helping companies on their Commercialization Journey. DM me to avoid adding to this frustrating experience, and let us help you find the early startup, Easy Button. #VCinvestingfrustrations #Seedstagedifficulties #SVALifeSciences #CommercializationJourney #EasyButton

🚀 Looking for investment for your startup? 🚀 Having already backed several innovative start-ups in Q1, we've just launched our Summer investment cohort, and are on the hunt for more: 🇬🇧 UK-Based (Eligible for EIS/VCT) 👩💻 ..high growth Seed to Series A start-ups 📈 ..with at least £500k+ ARR 💷 ..wanting up to £1.5m by late July 2024 Is this you or someone you know? Don't hesitate to DM me your pitch deck or tag a fellow founder in the comments. Blackfinch Ventures #venturecapital #techfunding #startupinvestment #growthcapital

🔥List of 200+ pre-seed investors🔥 Nowadays, raising pre-seed rounds from funds has become a myth. Nevertheless, there are still active folks that want to support more mature pre-seed startups, with great founders/teams, live products and big markets. I would love to share with you the lists with the names of active pre-seed investors that consist of: ⦾ Family Offices ⦾ VC funds To get the database, please complete BOTH Step 1 & Step 2: Step 1: Comment on the post below Step 2: Drop me a DM/Inmail (with a connection request if we're not synced up) saying "pre-seed" and I will send you a link to the database. Step 3: (Optional) ♻️ Found this helpful? ↳ Repost it so your network can benefit from it, too. #preseed #seed #venturecapital #angel #tech #startup #familyoffice

I really don’t understand how come angel investors don’t make money. It may be because they are not patient enough to build their portfolio. I have invested personally in 33 startups till date. My current active portfolio multiple is ~11X in about 8 years and my current total portfolio value is about 0.5 MN USD (INR 4 CR). With valuation of a few startups from my portfolio becoming double in the next 1-2 years, my portfolio value will also double down to 1 MN USD. And it will keep doubling down every 1-2 years. I have already taken exit from 3, 7 of my investments have gone bust and 23 are still active. Startup investing is all about patience and long term investing. It’s not about unicorn speed but it’s about cockroach patience.

US based Beta Boom closes fund to back founders beyond the Silicon Valley. 💸 ‘$14.5 million Fund II raised by Beta Boom Managing Partners and co-founders alongside Limited Partners, including Ally Bank, Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, Bank of America, and Atento Capital.’ 💭 “The closing of this fund allows us to continue investing in software startups that not only solve real and meaningful problems, but that also have strong market potential…” - Kimmy Paluch, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Beta Boom 💡The firm invests primarily in #fintech, #digitalhealth, and the future of #work. 🌍 Early-stage startups in the United States. 📈 ‘Through a self-funded Fund I and its current Fund II, Beta Boom has already invested in 20 companies alongside leading investors like Union Square Ventures, Acumen America, SoGal Ventures, Serena Ventures, BBG Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group and others.’ 🗞️Abhinaya Prabhu Tech Funding News https://lnkd.in/dAZaNFF9 👏 For the #AudaciousInvestors unleashing innovation and empowering tomorrow🚀 Sergio Paluch I Shelly Glennon I Meghan OLeary, OLY Erin Harkless Moore, I Team Beta Boom … #venturecapital #vc #funds #startups #entrepreneurs #funding #tech #entrepreneurship #technology #innovation #siliconvalley #usa

very informative:

At 186 Ventures we spend a fair amount of time thinking about what non-obvious trends may be in motion or may exist around the corner. As a generalist early stage investment strategy, these 2024 trends inform how we think about the world and our approach to partnering with founders. Big thank you to Stéphane Nasser and the rest of the OpenVC team for publishing this piece on what myself, Julian Fialkow, and Sophie Panarese are keeping at top of mind as we enter into what should be one of the best vintages in recent times to invest in seed stage tech enabled startups. https://lnkd.in/exTzRPDU