VCs see new trends for investing moving fast

Democratization of investing, a powerful trend
1639_ 12/1/14 - We caught up with Seth Levine, VC and Managing Director of the Foundry Group, at DefragCon 2014, and has he got interesting news.... from investing syndicates and angels to real better privacy. Say Ello! and check out the 'Manifesto'. The Defrag conference, Seth says, "Fantastic, thought provoking. This morning, we heard from the most prolific female patent holder at IBM, to George Dyson with the history of technology, fascinating." Larry asked with all the people and companies Seth was involved in, could he tell us about his hot topics. First Seth said, "The experimentation we're doing on Angel lists and the proliferation of angel investing in general as a category, and open to far more people with some of the new crowd funding that are changing the way investing happens at a seed and angel level. And that's been interesting, we've closed 35 investments through our angel syndicate. It's been really interesting to watch how that market has...listen for much more...
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