When I meet with entrepreneurs, I am often asked about the VC “pipeline.”
How many deals do we see? How many meetings? How often do we conduct due diligence? How many of those companies do we invest in?
I thought it would be helpful to provide visibility about the VC pipeline, while also outlining what helps a company move from an intro meeting into a closed investment.
In order to make 10 investments, the average venture capital firm reviews approximately 1,200 companies.
Throughout its history, Silicon Valley has dominated the spotlight for promoting and financing the growth of emerging tech companies. Today Silicon Valley continues to remain the center of tech innovation, in large part, because the startup hotbed now spills well into the San Francisco Peninsula. Among the hundreds of emerging tech companies now headquartered in San Francisco are Pinterest, Square and Uber.
Jeff Clavier da un paseo por los principios del análisis a la hora de invertir. Se trata de uno de los más respetados inversores de startups en Silicon Valley, es socio gerente de SoftTech VC, inversores de capital de riesgo: 140 compañías financiadas, 85 aún funcionan, 25 desaparecidas y 30 adquiridas.
El equipo
¿Cómo me sentiré trabajando con este equipo durante los próximos 5-7 años?
If you’re staring 2013 in the eyes, trying to figure out whether or not your new venture is likely to attract VC investment in the new year, you might be interested in the findings presented in the 2012 Global Venture Capital Confidence Survey.
