Insight Partners

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

About Insight Partners Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and Scaleup companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. For more information, visit racap.com.

Deal Flow 52

Deal Flow Startups Venture Capital Financing 52

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

People often ask me for advice on fundraising, generating deal flow, hiring, increasing visibility , triathlons, babies, etc.--a Apparently, this doesn’t just happen in cartoons. a really wide range of stuff. This post isn’t meant as a criticism of anyone for doing so.

Deal Flow 97

Deal Flow Startups Funds Companies 97

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MARCH 24, 2014

These days, there are a ton of options for you if you''re a startup seeking guidence. We''ve done a lot to make sure startups get all the help we can get--and it''s leading to higher companies getting off the ground. Just like a startup accelorator, a VC program would also really help on the fundraising side.

Startups 155

Startups Venture Capital Deal Flow Leveraging 155

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Opening up our circle to create and scale genuine engagement for people outside of typical venture networks is how we do business—and we’re getting exceptional deal flow because of that. But diversity isn’t any kind of criteria for us—it’s a function of trying to create value for the whole ecosystem--not just those you back.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Accredited Investors Capital Best Practices 100

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. Well, if you add it to your startup, it does a few things. One, it usually implies that you’re going to start going cash flow negative to accelerate growth. Was she just an anomaly or is there something else going on here? That adds risk.

Venture Capital 190

Venture Capital Deal Flow Startups Capital 190

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

We should be willing to go through the firehose of crappy deals in their inbox for the money we make. Warm intro or not, no VC has the magical stream of only quality deal flow with nothing stupid added. Heck, most of the worst deals I see are from intros to perfectly nice people with perfectly awful startups.

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Capital Portfolios Startups 154

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

You're asked to participate in lectures and events at top tier academic institutions known for entrepreneurship and startups. Sourcing You're seeing the majority of deals done in your stage and sector and you see nearly everything that gets announced that you really would have wanted to. You get invited to 20 min VC pod interview.

Startups 97

Startups Best Practices Deal Flow Venture Capital 97

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

To be a good VC, you're going to offer up a lot of time to companies that may never pay back a dime--or even to deals you never wind up doing. There's no magic flow of great deal flow. You're going to spend a lot of time helping people that just aren't going to make it with their business. That's basically the way in.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Startups Deal Flow Education 107

SuperAngel.Fund

MARCH 24, 2023

Though impossible to see in the heat of the moment, it is obvious looking back that those experiences gave me the major competitive advantage that I have today: founder empathy and a unique understanding of the startup journey. Nearly a decade after it closed, I still get asked why RetailMLS did not work out.

Angel Investors 59

Angel Investors Due Diligence Legal Deal Flow 59

SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 6, 2023

Per Cooley, “The average pre-money valuation for seed deals has remained relatively consistent since late 2021.” That said, these figures do not yet incorporate deals closed in Q4 2022, which, I believe will show a much more substantial decline in valuations for pre-seed and seed rounds than the preceding quarters of the year.

Venture Capital 52

Venture Capital Financing Finance Law Firms 52

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

When my own startup was failing, I was helping Foursquare’s seed round happen—even switched seats around at an outing to Citifield for my 30th birthday to help make the right connections happen. That’s why I share my deal flow with them free of any additional fees and carry.

Funds 147

Funds Best Practices Deal Flow Startups 147

The Big Picture

JULY 2, 2024

I think a lot of startup founders are actually the opposite, where it’s like we choose to go to the moon, not because it’s easy, but because we think it’s going to be easy. And I always wondered why huge bureaucracies could sometimes lose to startups. That’s pretty rapid growth for a a startup.

Legal 57

Legal Hedge Funds Financing Finance 57

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JANUARY 22, 2018

Vetting deal flow is part of the job. I have no doubt there are many worthy Black-led startups who are wandering in the wilderness right now because they're still where I was then." Your network never signed up to do your outsourced job for you. If you can't handle the cold inbound, hire some help.

Funds 118

Funds Angel Investors Deal Flow Investors 118

Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

Frost also said the fund is “seeing more deal flow opportunities” in private debt following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and other lenders, and that the fund was ready to take more risk to profit from such positions. This could rise further if the review gives the green light. Indeed, you're not going to get anywhere near 6.8%

Pension Funds 52

Pension Funds Debt Assets Banks 52

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JUNE 1, 2020

Even if they were, startup employees usually don't hold more than 10% of the company's overall stock and less than 10% of the company's employees were black at the time of the IPO. Sure, that means exponentially opening up the flow of deals and going through a ton of deal flow. so they make up less than 10% of 10%.

Startups 132

Startups Education Accredited Investors Deal Flow 132

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

That seems like there’s endless amounts of money around and, and no shortage of people willing to, to fund startups. So, so does that create opportunities for other companies to come in and be in disrupt disruptors, or are are they sort of blocking the, the entranceway to new startups that want to compete in that same space?

Banks 52

Banks Startups Companies Boutique Investment Banks 52

SuperAngel.Fund

JULY 14, 2023

Below is an excerpt from one such investor who explains this rationale via a post titled “ 2023 and 2024 are set to become strong vintage venture years: here is why ”: “There is strong evidence to support the view that both 2023 and 2024 will be years remembered for exciting startups and landmark VC deals…Is this surprising?

Venture Capital 52

Venture Capital Capital Funds Deal Flow 52

The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

So the smartest thing I ever did in this where Social Leverage started is I took everything I made and just redistributed it to everybody I saw doing a startup around … RITHOLTZ: Just every company. RITHOLTZ: So your Social Leverage is deal flow connections, access to start founders, access to capital… LINDZON: Low capital requirements.

Hedge Funds 113

Hedge Funds Leveraging Venture Capital Capital 113