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Anupam Rastagi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
174 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

And do you pass that down?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

We try and give it in the $10,000, $20,000 or less range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

Safe is lower.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

It's closer to the $10,000 or lower.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

And then equity round, it's a more complex round with other rights have been negotiated and other things that can get in this legal diligence and other things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

Yeah, it gets trickier.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

Yeah, I'd say that's fairly typical of venture rounds of that size, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

Yeah, we try and target 10% where we can, again, reflecting our lead investor status.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

So we are pretty happy to go and form our conviction.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

And then often others, there's quite a few folks that like to follow us and join rounds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

But yeah, I'd say our median ownership is in the 10%, 12% range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

That's what we target.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

I'd say, yeah, we try and stay, depending on the stage and type of company, we try and stay in that 15, 20 post range under that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

But yeah, we have, you know, venture is a game of exceptions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

So we do have, we see an exceptional founder, exceptional team, exceptional company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

We have gone above that in some cases.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

But yeah, we do try to be fairly disciplined.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

What I mean by that is, across the fund, we are making, let's say, 22 to 25 investments.