Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

Re:Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession? by prakash on Friday December 05, 2008 @02:12AM (#386764)

The current generation of founders want to raise money from VCs, and Sequoia specifically, because Larry and Sergey took money from VCs, and Sequoia specifically.

Excluding YC and the likes, I would have thought, by now, a lot of startups would want to raise money from angels that have formerly started startups -- there are tons of them around. That would be the #1 choice.

#2 choice would be the Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital, Atomico, Ambient Sound Investments and the like.

Failing these, the #3 would be the Sequoia's, KPCB, Khosla Ventures, Benchmark, Accel's, Menlo's of the world.

What do folks on HN think?

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Re:Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession? by shafqat on Friday December 05, 2008 @04:21PM (#387541)

Agree 100%. Although we were talking to some of the VCs in your 2nd bucket, we ended up going with #1. Our seed round is entirely angel funded, with one institutional player (#3 type) making an exceptional angel investment.

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