Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. Of course sentiment can swing wildly with new information but I set out to take the pulse of the market as we enter 2016. State of the Market.
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FEBRUARY 18, 2016
Every year at Upfront we try to analyze the venture markets. In venture our goal is to fund companies over a 10-year+ time horizon, which is the time it takes to build truly transformational companies. VC survey data 2016 from Mark Suster. We try to look at the sources of capital, the valuations, exits and trends.
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FEBRUARY 6, 2017
It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. With nearly 2/3rd of all VCs citing cost-cutting in 2016 as the norm — this is a clear indication that winter made an appearance. Baidu alone raised $3.2
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 1, 2016
It’s a new year – 2016. Strictly for example sake I’ll take our mission at Upfront Ventures. We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. I may choose different words from time-to-time to describe Upfront Ventures. 2016 is going to be a tough year.
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AUGUST 24, 2015
But I do have some insight into how this will affect venture markets. When many venture investors are seeing their personal public portfolios tank it creeps into their business lives and creates an emotion that is less risk tolerant whether they’re aware of it or not. I caution people from thinking this is necessarily a bottom.
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JUNE 5, 2016
The other major trend of 2012–2015 was the entrance of “non VCs” into late-stages of venture capital , which mostly consisted of hedge funds, mutual funds, corporate investors, sovereign wealth funds and even LPs doing direct deals. In Q3/Q4 2015 the market changed noticeably for VC funds and the market started to realize this by Q1 2016.
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