5 Investor Podcasts Discussing Changes in Startup Financing

The startup financing game has changed. Seed funding used to be the harder round to get. But right now there are 500 to 600 micro-VCs in the market who are funding tons and tons of companies at the seed stage. The numbers are 50,000 to 70,000 seed financing a year, while Series A financing per year is only about 1,500. There is a huge drop off in Series A funding happening. We don’t really have a great answer on how to cross this gap.

Entrepreneurs do need to be able to show certain levels of validation. The Series A investors are looking for a lot of different metrics which are not necessarily being tackled by the ventures who have raised just seed money. It’s become a very tricky environment.

The following investors discuss these changes, as well as the different types of startups they want to invest in, during 30-minute podcast interviews.

Waikit Lau, investor and serial entrepreneur, has a refreshingly open attitude towards investing in very early stage companies. Wonderful conversation.

Alexander Ross, Founder at Illuminate Financial, talks about his firm’s FinTech investment thesis.

Devdutt Yellurkar, General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures), who discussed his investment principles. It was an excellent discussion!

Kelly Perdew is Co-founder and Managing General Partner at Moonshots Capital, a firm that has a unique investment thesis of supporting military veterans. Very interesting insights.

Biplab Adhya and Venu Pemmaraju, Co-Heads of Wipro Ventures, discuss their firm’s investment thesis.