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Mapping The Haystack Portfolio Across The United States

Haystack

For me, as a seed investor, I started to feel this struggle back in 2015. Until then, the overwhelming majority of Haystack investments were in the Bay Area.

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So much fintech M&A

TechCrunch

A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. ” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”.

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

Studies show that in the handful of major nations with vibrant venture markets, more than half the deals are “seed rounds” or “Series A” venture rounds (in plain terms, the first or second round of funding for a startup). So more of these companies march into the wide mouth of the funnel. Because the U.S.

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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

From an investment point of view, managing and deploying capital in the same physical area makes sense, where investors can work with young companies and help them with a variety of things. San Francisco proper was #1, and taken on the whole, the Bay Area, of course, receives more venture capital investment than anywhere else, naturally.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. Why will that happen?

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