Ο επενδυτικός όμιλος KPCB ανακοινώνει πρόγραμμα χρηματοδότησης για Bitcoin startups
Ο επενδυτικός όμιλος της silicon Valley Kliner Perkins Caufield and Byers(KPCB) ανακοίνωσε το πρόγραμμα επενδύσεων ‘KPCB Edge‘ με στόχο νέες εταιρείες στον χώρο της τεχνολογίας συμπεριλαμβανομένων Bitcoin startup που προσφέρουν τεχνολογικές λύσεις βασισμένες στο Blockchain.
Τα διαθέσιμα κεφάλαια είναι ύψους 4 εκατομμυρίων δολαρίων ενώ το πρόγραμμα θα τρέξει για 5 χρόνια με στόχο το 2015 να έχουν χρηματοδοτηθεί 20 νέες εταιρείες στον χώρο της ψηφιακής τεχνολογίας.
How does Edge invest?
We built Edge to answer the question, “What would we want from our seed investors if we were raising a round right now?” Our investments follow a simple pattern:
- The most founder friendly terms — We are often the first outside capital a founding team may raise. At this stage, it doesn’t make sense to us to speculate about valuations or exits. We believe that conviction at this stage is binary — you either believe in a team or not. We use Edge SAFEs — straightforward, uncapped convertible securities (which we’ve open sourced here). We don’t request information rights, pro rata clauses, or board seats.
- 72 Hour SLAs — A founder’s time is expensive, and any spent away from shipping product and selling to customers is, often, time wasted. We aim to be respectful of our founders’ schedules — in general, Edge investment decisions are made within 72 hours of our meetings with founders.
- Teams working on emerging areas of technology — While we’re excited to work with exceptional teams working on any problem, we spend the bulk of our time in the following areas:
- Virtual reality
- Drones
- Blockchains
- Computer vision
- Digital health
- Mobile marketplaces
In the coming weeks, we’ll write more about each of these areas, explaining why we believe these are important problem areas that we want to help founders tackle.
Like the companies we back, Edge is in its earliest stages, and we’d love to hear from you if you believe there’s something in our own Pilot Checklist we should be thinking about.