AlphaTech Ventures is seeking to raise $75 million for its seed stage venture capital fund. The seed funding landscape has expanded significantly in recent years with the rise of accelerators and incubators. AlphaTech differentiates itself through its connections to O'Reilly Network, focus on specific investment themes, disciplined investment process, and ability to work with highly referenceable founders. It plans to address the ongoing funding gap between seed and growth stages. The fund has significantly outperformed projections with strong returns for its first fund and high multiples for its second.
2. Seed Funding Landscape
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$250k to $1M Seed Rounds Up to $3M Party Rounds
Y Combinator and Techstars 100+ Accelerators and
Priced Rounds Incubators
10-12 Seed Stage Funds Convertible Notes
Everyone
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3. OATV Differentiators
Then Now
OReilly Network OReilly Network
Investment Themes Investment Themes
Funding Strategy Funding Strategy
Thought Leadership
Investment Discipline
Highly Referenceable Founders
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4. Market Dynamics
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Funding Gap Between Angels Funding Gap Between Seed
and VCs and Growth
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5. OATV Investment Strategy
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Invest $500k to $1M Seed Invest $500k to $2M Seed and
Rounds Seed+ Rounds
Lead or Co-Lead Rounds up to Lead or Co-Lead Rounds up to
$2M $3M
Participate in Series B and C Participate in Series B and C
Rounds Rounds
Opportunistically Participate in Opportunistically Participate in
Traditional Series A Rounds Traditional Series A Rounds
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6. OATV Investment Themes
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Quantified Self Quantified Self Pro
Internet Subsystems Maker Pro
Smart Networks of Things Hacking Education
Manipulation and Visualization Hidden Economies
of Big Data Operations as Competitive
Sustainability Advantage
Maker Movement A Router in Every Pocket
The Internet Operating System
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7. OATV Fund Returns
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Solid Gross IRR Fund I
Negative Net IRR Like Woah Net IRR
Um, Wow Gross Multiple
R U Kidding?!? Net Multiple
Fund II
Really? Net IRR
Is That Possible? Multiple
Nice Net Multiple
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8. OATV Fund I Projected Return
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Downside Beating Base Projected Net
Multiple
Base
Upside
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9. Team
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Mark Jacobsen Mark Jacobsen
Bryce Roberts Bryce Roberts
Tim OReilly Tim OReilly
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