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Atlas Venture

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$$$$$ Londond, Asia / Pacific

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3.9 3.9 3.9 3.7 4.1

3.9

First Round Capital

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$$$$$ San Francisco, US West

Rated by 30

3.9 4.2 3.4 3.9 4.3

3.9

RRE Ventures

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$$$$$ New York, US East

Rated by 89

4.7 3.7 3.7 3.1 3.5

3.8

Sequoia Capital

Certified

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 11

2.8 3.9 3.6 3.7 4.6

3.7

Alsop Louie Partners

 

$$$$$ San Francisco, US West

Rated by 18

3.7 4.0 3.7 3.2 3.8

3.7

Wellington Partners

Certified

$$$$$ Munich, Europe

Rated by 22

3.2 4.0 3.7 3.9 3.8

3.7

Leapfrog Ventures

Certified

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 24

3.9 3.7 3.8 3.3 4.0

3.7

Altos Ventures

Certified

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 48

3.8 3.6 3.4 3.5 3.9

3.6

Trinity Ventures

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$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 13

3.8 3.5 3.3 3.6 3.8

3.6

Scale Venture Partners

Certified

$$$$$ Foster City, US West

Rated by 20

3.1 3.4 3.4 3.8 3.7

3.5

Opus Capital

 

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 20

3.5 3.6 3.6 3.1 3.5

3.5

Union Square Ventures

 

$$$$$ New York, US East

Rated by 21

3.1 3.7 3.9 3.7 3.3

3.5

True Ventures

Certified

$$$$$ Palo Alto, US West

Rated by 43

3.8 3.4 3.1 3.7 3.5

3.5

New Enterprise Associates

Certified

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 15

3.9 3.0 3.1 4.0 3.2

3.4

The Founders Fund

Certified

$$$$$ San Francisco, US West

Rated by 40

3.6 3.6 3.1 3.2 3.4

3.4

Mayfield Fund

 

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 33

3.4 3.5 2.9 3.5 3.6

3.4

Polaris Venture Partners

 

$$$$$ Waltham, US East

Rated by 11

3.9 3.7 2.8 2.7 3.6

3.4

Versant Ventures

 

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 39

3.6 3.3 3.4 3.1 3.9

3.4

Bessemer Venture Partners

Certified

$$$$$ Larchmont, US East

Rated by 33

3.4 3.2 3.0 3.3 3.7

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Spark Capital

 

$$$$$ Boston, US East

Rated by 39

3.6 2.8 3.2 3.4 3.1

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Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Certified

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 40

3.8 3.4 3.0 3.4 3.1

3.3

Menlo Ventures

 

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 16

3.8 3.5 3.4 2.8 2.8

3.3

Morgenthaler Ventures

 

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 22

3.7 3.4 3.0 3.4 3.1

3.3

Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham Ventures

 

$$$$$ New York, US East

Rated by 21

3.0 3.1 3.6 3.4 3.4

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Levensohn Venture Partners

Certified

$$$$$ San Francisco, US West

Rated by 18

3.3 3.3 2.8 3.5 3.5

3.3

Sigma Partners

 

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 33

4.1 3.3 2.9 3.0 3.3

3.3

Greylock Partners

Certified

$$$$$ San Mateo, US West

Rated by 26

3.4 3.5 3.0 3.0 3.5

3.3

InterWest Partners

Certified

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

Rated by 24

3.9 3.5 2.7 2.9 3.1

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Index Ventures

Certified

$$$$$ Geneva, Europe

Rated by 13

3.3 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.2

3.2

Gemini Israel Funds

Certified

$$$$$ Herzliya, ME / Africa

Rated by 30

2.7 3.0 3.5 3.3 3.4

3.2

Shasta Ventures

Certified

$$$$$ Menlo Park, US West

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A few slots have opened up for the first CEO-only symposium hosted by TheFunded on January 8th in Mountain View, California. 50 CEOs from early stage online technology, online software, Web 2.0, and consumer internet companies are invited to discuss the challenges of starting, growing, and financing businesses in 2009. The goal is to build a plan for future success. This is a unique opportunity to review both the challenges and the opportunities presented by the historic market conditions with a carefully selected panel of you peers.

Members, if you are interested in attending, please read the Private section of this post for details.

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I just got off the phone with a friend who is founder/CEO of an early stage medical device company. His company is doing well and recently received a couple of term sheets for his first institutional round. As he was going through the process of negotiating with the potential investors, he said they were trying to set his expectations low. He told me a story about how one investor recounted tales of startups making mass layoffs, cutting back everywhere and generally dire conditions (basically sending the message that he should be happy to be getting an offer).

So my friend responded, "Wow, that sounds terrible. This must be really affecting you badly...how many people have you had to layoff here""

The VC stared at him with a bewildered look.

Read more here.

Pitched my company to Jim Smith at two stages of financing. He didn't invest, but our discussions were very nice and professional - memorable enough for me to take time out of an extremely busy time to write this post.

Disclaimer: I've founded, built, sold, multiple startups. Met more VCs than I can remember. Have observed MDV as part of one of their earlier investments as well.

The good: Jim is very sharp. Gets it quickly. Let's you make your pitch how you need to. Asks tough questions and they are mostly directly related to the issues you were worried about.

Very polite, easy to deal with, and prompt.

The not-so-good: Jim had suggested slightly traditional solutions to certain issues he raised. Not as entrepreneurial about those solutions as an entrepreneur might be, but then he is a VC. And his suggestions did make us think of more traditional, lower risk ways of doing this, which helped us in the end.

I've met Randy Strahan and Sven, dealt with Jon Feiber as well, and I think each of them was very professional. Good experience, and I would recommend Jim and the MDV team to any entrepreneur.

After pitching since October - its readily apparent that AV (and many others) are only investing in what is now termed early stage (with trailing revenues of $1-3 Million)...Boys, this isn't early stage. Time to revamp the web site and other materials that only late stage companies matter. With $900M fund wouldn;t you think this is a great time to invest in early stage ventures knowing that they will grow over 5-7 year horizon. The economy will get better by then and these companies will be the ones to shine.

We pitched to both Justin & Jerome Camp. After some follow up meetings and due diligence they agreed to co-invest alongside our lead investor. They are very knowledgeable of early stage issues, and they are very helpful with most of those issues. They helped us a lot in our fund raising, providing great introductions to top tier VC firms, always with partners with which they have already worked with in the past. We feel like they are looking after the company's interest as well as the entrepreneur's interest; we would select them again in a heartbeat.