The VC landscape in a Post-Seed world
There's a boom in seed-stage investing, but a big funding gap before getting to Series A
Duncan Davidson of Bullpen joined us at our Vator Splash Oakland to present: "The VC Landscape in a Post-Seed World". Learn about this gap between seed-stage financing and Series A and how to navigate through it.
Vator, Bullpen and Venture51 will also be hosting the first-ever Post Seed conference, to be held this Dec. 2 at Cowell theater in Fort Mason in San Francisco. Join us! Check out the event here: postseed.co and REGISTER HERE.
Thanks to our Vator Splash Oakland video sponsor, Oakland Forward and Bryan Parker, Oakland Mayoral candidate
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