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StrictlyVC: June 2, 2017

Friday! Hallelujah. We’re not sure how much more of this week we could take. We want to say a huge thank you to investor, advisor, and friend Semil Shah, who, in Connie’s absence this week, has run a series of rare interviews with limited partners, meaning the people who write the checks to venture firms and typically […]

Filed Under: Fundraising

SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie: IPO, Yes; 2017, Not Likely

On Thursday night, at a StrictlyVC event at SurveyMonkey in Palo Alto, this editor sat down with CEO Zander Lurie to learn more about the direction of the 17-year-old company, known for the roughly 90 million surveys that the outfit and its customers create for their various constituents each month (and whose average order volume is $300, says Lurie). I was particularly interested in Lurie, […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Fundraising, Investment Opportunities Tagged With: SurveyMonkey, Zander Lurie

True Ventures Just Led a $12 Million Investment in Still-Stealth Brava

If you’re curious to learn about the latest investment out of San Francisco-based True Ventures, you’ll have to be patient. Though the firm is disclosing that it has led a whopping $12 million Series A round in new startup Brava, details about the startup are scarce. What we do know: Brava is a new IoT company that […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Fundraising Tagged With: Brava, Cowboy Ventures, John Pleasants, True Ventures

Guild Education Lands $8.5 Million in Series A Funding Led by Redpoint

According to a 2014 report from Complete College America, a nonprofit group based in Indianapolis, just 19 percent of full-time students earn a bachelor’s degree in four years at public universities. The stats are even worse at community colleges, where five percent of full-time students earn an associate degree within two years, and just 15.9 […]

Filed Under: Fundraising, Investment Opportunities Tagged With: Guild Education, Redpoint Ventures

Luma Tacks on $7 Million from Andreessen Horowitz and GV

Luma, an Atlanta-based company that makes a sleek router with a wide variety of bells and whistles, has tacked on $7 million in funding to its coffers from Andreessen Horowitz and GV. The funding comes fast on the heels of a $12.5 million Series A round that was co-led in April by Accel Partners and Amazon […]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: Andreesssen Horowitz, GV, Luma

NFX Guild Just Introduced 13 Buzzy Young Startups to Investors

The young Bay Area accelerator NFX Guild hosted its third “demo day” yesterday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, and the attendees were a veritable who’s who of venture and angel investing. It wasn’t necessarily a surprise that roughly 200 top investors were sitting elbow to elbow to see the presenting companies. NFX […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Fundraising Tagged With: NFX Guild

At Rothenberg Ventures, the Rise and Fall of a Virtual Gatsby

Rothenberg Ventures, the four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, may be on the brink of implosion, say several sources close to the firm. We reported yesterday that several high-level employees had parted ways with Rothenberg, including its director of finance and the head of its SF office, who happen to be father and son (Tom and Tommy […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics, Fundraising Tagged With: Rothenberg Ventures

Pejman Mar Raises $75 Million for Second Fund, Rebrands as Pear

Likability, intuition, and a strong work ethic is a potent combination in any business, and many in Silicon Valley think seed-stage investors Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson have all three in spades. They “complement each other,” says investor Alfred Lin of Sequoia Capital, who invested in the Series A round of DoorDash, the restaurant delivery company, after they seeded it. Indeed, the […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics, Fundraising Tagged With: Pear, Pejman Mar Ventures

Exits and Commitments

By Semil Shah Today wraps up the third summer I’ve had the luxury (and wielded the power!) of being a guest curator for StrictlyVC while Connie takes some well-deserved R&R on the beach with her family. This year, along with the standard Q&A’s with fellow investors, I’ve been reflecting on my few years as a […]

Filed Under: Fundraising Tagged With: Haystack, Semil Shah

A “Should I Raise a Fund” FAQ

By Semil Shah Without fail, at least once a week, someone pings me or asks for an intro to learn about how I set up my fund Haystack. I think many people want to start a smaller seed-stage fund, which is cool. I’m happy to share whatever I can with others. But I am also no […]

Filed Under: Fundraising

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