Sramana Mitra: Since 2013, there have been 50,000 to 70,000 seed investments. By seed, I mean the entire spectrum of pre-seed, seed, post-seed, and pre-Series A. That’s a lot of companies. The number of venture-funded companies is still very low. It’s 1,200 to 1,500 and it remains more or less constant. At the other vector
Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you the TAM question. We are in January 2018. Lots of stuff have already been built. Nowadays, there aren’t as many wide open opportunities to build these multi-billion dollar companies. It’s not like very corner of the enterprise software market is full of billion-dollar opportunities. There are lots of niche
Sramana Mitra: It’s the same model as Gartner? The software companies are paying a subscription fee to G2 Crowd to be included in this review process. Ira Weiss: It is free for the software companies. Some of the companies do choose to pay if they want to pay if they want to have an enhanced
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Ira Weiss of Hyde Park Venture Partners was recorded in January 2018. Ira Weiss, General Partner at Hyde Park Venture Partners based in Chicago, talks about venture activity in the Midwest. Sramana Mitra: Tell