The Anti-VC
We're the Anti-VC. We're not unicorn hunters and don't believe in high burn, uneconomic models that reach for market share. We look for solid businesses built by founders who are cash efficient, scrappy, and pragmatic. We focus on companies with $2mm+ of run-rate revenue and year over year growth of 50%+. We'll invest anywhere in the US or Canada, especially in markets most venture capital firms overlook. We prefer leading $1mm to $10mm Series A or B rounds, but can also follow. We like plain-vanilla preferred stock in traditional growth rounds, inside rounds, recaps, secondaries, and restructurings.
Who We AreThe Numbers
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Companies Funded
18
Invested
1
Check Size
3-4
Decision Process
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Portfolio
Our portfolio is diverse and includes HR software, app tech, parking, sales and marketing software, apps, greeting cards, dating, e-commerce, and healthcare software. We love tech, but will invest in low or no tech opportunities that scale.
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Protecting founders from dilution
Valuation is more important than capital raised to preserve your ownership. To determine this, we looked at founder ownership relative to equity raised for 110 publicly traded tech companies. Our goal was to see if founders that raised less capital owned more equity upon exit, and vice versa, founders that raised more capital owned less…
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VC may not be for you
A good friend of mine just exited the business he founded for $25mm. Since he built the business on so little outside investment, he owned 52% at exit and took home $13mm. This type of exit brings up an important point: too many founders take a typical venture approach which is to focus on the…
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Tech company cash efficiency metrics
Cash efficiency is as important as growth, especially when you’re a fast growing, cash burning startup with limited capital. One measure of cash efficiency is revenue/total capital invested. When you’re in early revenue the metric will look abysmal, but as the business grows and realizes economies of scale (generally $2mm+ of revenue), the measure improves….
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Capital raised by tech companies
What’s the level of investment needed to build a tech company that goes public? The data and observations from 151 tech IPOs are below. Software businesses needed $137mm of equity. On median, publicly traded software companies raised $137mm through their Series D before going public. Note the average equity raised of the 11 companies that IPO’d…
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