Venture Capital

Venture Capital Market Update Going into 2024

Source: PitchBook, Kyle Stanford, Lead Analyst, Venture and Crunchbase Final data is in, and 2023 was an extremely difficult year for the venture capital industry, broadly speaking. A slower final quarter ended a lackluster year for global startup funding as venture capital investors continued to hold back in 2023. Global startup investment in 2023 reached […]

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Series C & Beyond: How Growth Investing is Different Than Early Stage

Source: Sonya Mann, Mattermark Investors aren’t stupid or lazy, but even thoroughly vetted startups can fail. It’s the nature of venture capital that many investments will never yield a return. Most startups fail, and the money backing them is lost. Only a third of companies that receive seed funding make it to a Series A.

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How to Think About Valuation When Raising Venture Capital

Source: Mark Suster, Managing Partner, Upfront Ventures One of the hardest things about the fundraising process for entrepreneurs is that you’re trying to raise money from people who have “asymmetric information.” VC firms see thousands of deals and have a refined sense of how the market is valuing deals because they get price signals across

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5 Reasons Entrepreneurs Don’t Get Funded (Which Are Not Their Fault)

Source: Joseph Flaherty, Director of Content & Community, Founder Collective Entrepreneurs pitching venture capitalists have access to an endless stream of advice on tweaks that can be made to their decks, strategies they can use to manage the fundraising process, and (ugh) hacks to eke out an incremental advantage in the scramble for capital. Founders

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Why VCs Sometimes Push Companies to Burn Cash Too Fast

Source: Aaron Harris, Co-Founder Tutorspree VCs sometimes exhibit behavior which seems strange from the point of view of founders/CEOs. Despite praising frugality, VCs sometimes push companies to spend more money, faster. Sometimes this leads to faster growth. More often it leads to empty bank accounts. I’ve seen a number of companies get killed by this

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4 Major Term Sheet Provisions that Protect VCs’ Interests

Source: Robin Riddell, Alyssa Riddle and George Gaprindashvili Venture investing is risky. That’s why VCs are experts at building downside protections into their deals to limit their chances of losing money if an investment declines in value. It’s important to understand these protections, how they are structured and what they mean. Below, we break down four

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How Family Offices Review Potential Investments

Source: Richard Wilson, The Family Offices Group Family offices receive an overwhelming number of requests from fund managers and companies to review their investment opportunity and consider making an investment. While evaluation processes vary, here are five key steps many use to conduct an initial review. This is not the complete process (there are usually many

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