Rich Maloy’s Post

🚀 Valuable Webinar Alert! 🚀 I want to highlight an upcoming webinar called THE SEED CRUST. This virtual event is for startup founders navigating the Seed Stage and wondering how to break through to Series A. My mentor, Rich Maloy, Managing Partner at SpringTime Ventures, and Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta, will cohost it. Check out the post below for more information. Register here: https://lnkd.in/g9FyiEps #Startup #VentureCapital #SeedStage #SeriesA #Entrepreneurship #Webinar #Carta #Insights

Virtual conversation with SpringTime Ventures to talk about #startup #fundraising market at Seed stage? We are there, come join us! Click here to register, and see you there! >> https://lnkd.in/g9FyiEps #AVLGrowth #SpringTimeVentures #Startups #Fundraising

Our friends at SpringTime Ventures are sharing their Market Report for Seed Investing next time! Secure your spot below for the event that's promising to be insightful and helping us prepare for market dynamics. #capitalraise #seedstage #fundraising #VC #earlystage #startupinvesting #marketdynamics #ecosystem Rich Maloy, Shalini Sardana (She/Her), Vidhi Data

100M people with an idea 1M people with a landing page 100K startups with an MVP 25K startups with users/customers 10K startups with revenue So, while it’s definitely “possible” to raise money with just an idea, the reality is that the further you advance, the less competition you face. Keep pushing forward; the progress will set you apart. #startup #buildinpublic

Founders, raising capital, particularly a priced round, is hard and can take a long time. Once you've found an investor, negotiating terms and closing the deal doesn't have to be. More than 80% of Series A financings use the National Venture Capital Association model legal documents as their starting point. Familiarize yourself with standard terms so you understand how they ultimately impact control of your company and your economics in an exit. Check out the guide to negotiating VC term sheets in the "Featured" section of my LI profile page for tips from me and more than a dozen VCs.

The past 2 years have been brutal to the Startup ecosystem. Darwin is back and capital has become less available and more expensive. Many startups haven’t gotten “far enough fast enough” and can’t raise the capital they need to survive. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that M&A is a topic that’s coming up more and more frequently in Board rooms as a way of “landing the plane”. A few thoughts: #startups #venturecapital #business #mergersandacquisitions https://lnkd.in/dhDKrMuN

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Well, we hoped 2024 would have a better start than this...!! Carta's data reflects what we've been hearing from startups near and far--fundraising is still very challenging. For early stage startups, Q1 looks no better than 2023 Q4, with lots of bridge rounds and lengthy round closes. Will this impact valuations? Despite the challenges in 2023, primary seed stage valuations still rose. It seems that valuations will need to fall at some point if the funding challenges continue, but where is the tipping point? #angelinvesting #animalhealth #startups #funding

As the topic of M&A continues to come up more frequently in the board room, co-founder and chief investment officer Frank Rotman shares the framework that he's found useful when helping Founders and Boards figure out if M&A is possible. It's based on a concept he calls “Climbing the Relevance Curve”. At the core of “relevancy” are two simple questions: 1) Will anyone care if the startup closes shop? 2) How much money is the startup burning? Read on to learn more about this framework and his thoughts: https://lnkd.in/dRJrtet2

Yes, there is a funding winter in the startup industry; startups now find it harder to raise funds. Many investors have become more discerning after losing their funds to startups that failed to deliver results. What we saw in many instances was that many startups designed products without paying attention to the basics. Their business models did not convincingly show a pathway to creating and capturing value. This led to many startups shuttering. However, I believe that startups have a higher chance of circumventing the challenge of the funding winter by focusing on the basics, and not neglecting the overall fundamentals.