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I Get By (Funding) With A Little Help From My Friends (and Family)

Friends and Family Funding Help from The Startup Garage

One of the most daunting challenges when starting a business is raising start-up capital. Finding and securing the cash will take careful research, good negotiating skills, and, above all, an unflagging commitment to launching your new business. Begin your capital search within your current network of friends and family. A good business plan is necessary […]

Building a High-Tech Startup Team

Building a Tech Startup Team from The Startup Garage

Aligning the Startup Team Strategy with the Capitalization Strategy The single most important factor to raising capital for any tech startup is the management team.  This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding.  A bonafide team is the assurance that the idea can be executed and that the business can […]

Seed and Series A Technology Funding Report

Capital Raising Trend Report from The Startup Garage

Tech Seed and Series A Medians and Averages Show Little Change Despite some notable early-stage Juiced and Jumbo Series A round investments in tech firms such as GitHub and Clinkle, the average and median Seed and Series A transactions are showing little change. Juiced Series A deals typically range between $8M and $15M.  Companies raising this type of […]

Seed VC Funding in Silicon Valley On The Rise

Venture Capital Investment Trends from The Startup Garage

Seed VC Funding in Bay Area on Pace for Record Year Seed funding in the San Francisco area appears to be on pace for another record year.  Seed deals in 2013 have seen a massive push towards the mobile sector with a contraction to the online sector.  Seed funding to both San Francisco and Silicon […]

Venture Capital Seed Investment and Re-Investment

Venture Capital Investment and Reinvestment from The Startup Garage

Seed Investment Rates Two international firms, 500 Startups and SV Angel, top the list for most active seed investment in 2010-2011. Below is a list of the 30 most active seed VC investors over the two-year time frame ranked based on number of deals they participated (graph thanks you CB Insights): Re-Investment Rates While 500 Startups […]

Legal Tech VC Funding Beginning to Stagger

Legal Tech vs Funding Stagger from The Startup Garage

Although the legal industry is massive ($300B), it is seeing a drop in funding by 16% year-over-year as investments are concentrated at the seed stage and exit activity is lukewarm. Funding to legal tech startups barely topped $100M across 30+ deals, with the largest deal representing 45% of total investments.   Deal Flow Oddly enough, […]

Budding Developer Tools Industry Attracting Big Investments

Budding Developer Tools Industry Attracting Big Investments from The Startup Garage

Online and mobile developers use a number of tools to collaborate on, facilitate and track their projects from bug tracking and API management to code sharing networks and mobile back-end services. Investors are beginning to take notice of the relatively young market categorized as developer tools, or any program or application that helps developers devise, […]

VC Update: Q1 2013 Activity Report – $6.9B Invested Across 841 Deals

Activity Report - $6.9B Invested Across 841 Deals from The Startup Garage

Q3 2012 saw 835 deals take place, the highest number since the dot com boom. Q4 held relatively flat (834 deals) and Q1’13 saw a slight uptick leading to a new multi-year high on deals. Funding also climbed on a sequential basis. Relative to Q1’12, funding was up 17%. Overall, Q1 2013 saw $6.9 billion […]