Harry Stebbings is the Founder of 20VC, building the next great financial institution at the intersection of media and venture capital. 20VC has reached over 125M downloads in 100+ countries and has featured the likes of Doug Leone, Bill Gurley, Marc Benioff, Daniel Ek and more. On the investing side, Harry has raised over $400M and made investments in the likes of Pachama, Linear, TripleDot, Superhuman, AgentSync, Linktree, Sorare and more.
In Today's Episode We Cover:
- Are LPs Open for Business:
- How has what LPs look for in new manager investments changed?
- What type of funds will be able to raise? Which will not be able to raise?
- What can managers do to significantly increase their chances of raising a new fund?
2. The Seed Investing Landscape: Harder Than Ever
- Why is seed pricing as high as ever?
- Why are multi-stage funds more active in seed than ever? How does this impact seed?
- How will seed change and evolve over the next 6-12 months?
3. Series A + B: The Best Place to be Investing
- Why is Series A the best risk/reward insertion point when investing today?
- How has the competition level at Series A and B changed?
- What do many people not see or know about this stage of the market today?
4. Is Growth Dead: Are Growth Deals Getting Done:
- What two core elements are needed if you want to raise a growth round today?
- How have growth round valuations been impacted over the last 12 months?
- To what extent do founders need to change their expectations on the price of rounds they will be able to get done today?
5. M&A and IPOs: Tough Times Ahead
- Why will we see continued low levels of activity in M&A markets?
- What acquisitions are we seeing take place?
- When will the IPO window crack open?
- Why were Klaviyo, Instacart and Arm not enough to open the windows?
