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Annual CTO Summit on October 3

LUNCH N LEARN, RECRUITING JANUARY 17

WORKSHOP CUSTOMER LIFETIME VALUE JANUARY 24

FIRST ROUND CAPITAL
2012 was truly exceptional for First Round because of the entrepreneurs we worked with each of the 365 days. So we start our goodbye to 2012 with a heartfelt thank you to the 7,000+ contributors across our community who worked millions of hours to help our 300+ founders build industry changing companies. Since 2005 every year has felt busy and 2012 was no exception. This year was filled with 37 new companies in our community, 5 new members of the First Round team, more than 50 new software product features built and shipped, 55+ events, a ton of additional services, thousands of new relationships and one new fund.

FEB

WORKSHOP CUSTOMER LIFETIME VALUE JANUARY 21

WORKSHOP 01 INVESTMENTS CHOOSING AN EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDER FEBRUARY 13

02 NATIONWIDE

03 INTERNAL

04 EXTERNAL

05 OUR CEOS

06 HOLIDAY VIDEO

LUNCH N LEARN, RECRUITING FEBRUARY 21

Investments
WHERE THE MONEY WENT IN 2012 $2.5 Million Dollars Was Raised Every Day by the First Round Portfolio in 2012

MAR

$910.1 M $16.4 B

NEW INVESTMENT, DOGVACAY MARCH 9

5.5%
ARTILLERY GAMES
JUN total8 capital raised

9GAG
APR 19

TRUE & CO DOGVACAY MANGO HEALTH
FEB 2 MAR 9 APR 19

SOOKASA
MAR 13

UPSTART NETWORKS
APR 19

total amount invested in JUN 25 tech/IT by every VC firm in 2012 INSTACANVAS of dollars13 JUN invested in Tech/IT companies by every US venture firm CASAHOP WAYWIRE went to a FRC company JUN 15
GIVE FORWARD
JUN 29 JUL 2

FUNDERS by FRC companies in 2012 CLUB

PERCEPTUAL NETWORKS
SEPT 21

SOCIALWIRE POPPIN NEW INVESTMENT,

INFLUITIVE
MAR 22

REWINDME
APR 20

LOOKCRAFT
JUL 18

SHERPAA
AUG 8

SEESAW
SEPT 21

REBEL MOUSE
OCT 24

SMART THINGS
DEC 3

INFLUITIVE JAN 31 MARCH 22

FEB 22

JAN FEB INVESTMENTS & EXITS

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN BAZAARVOICE IPO AT $938.7M
FEB 27

JUL

AUG

SEPT

OCT NOV DEC 37 out of 2338 companies reviewed, or 1.53%, were invested in

SINGLE PLATFORM ACQUIRED BY CONSTANT CONTACT
JUN 14
APR

* 15 investments in 2012 have yet to be announced

OUTRIGHT ACQUIRED BY GODADDY

JACK LEIDLEIN JOINS AS HEAD OF TALENT APRIL 1
TECHCRUNCH ARTICLE

JUL 18

EXACTTARGET IPO AT $1.619B
SEPT 18

36:1
WORKSHOP - USER GROWTH APRIL 10
EVERY $1 FRC INITIALLY INVESTS IN A COMPANY IS FOLLOWED BY $36 OF FOLLOW-ON CAPITAL FROM OTHER VCS

$2.5B+
TOTAL VALUE OF EXITS

2
IPOS

WORKSHOP DATA BY YEAR AND OBJECTIVES

KEY RESULTS APRIL 18
# NEW INVESTMENTS

2012
# FOLLOW-ON FINANCINGS

2010

# NEW INVESTMENTS

# FOLLOW-ON FINANCINGS

2011
# NEW INVESTMENTS # FOLLOW-ON FINANCINGS

50 $18.7 M

50 $379.9 M

37
INITIAL CAPITAL INVESTED BY FRC

66
FOLLOW-ON CAPITAL RAISED BY PORTFOLIO

34
INITIAL CAPITAL INVESTED BY FRC

67
FOLLOW-ON CAPITAL RAISED BY PORTFOLIO

INITIAL CAPITAL FOLLOW-ON CAPITAL FIRST ROUND INVESTED BY FRC RAISED BY PORTFOLIO CAPITAL AD SUMMIT 2012 MAY 2

$23.1 M

$801.4 M
INVESTMENTS BY SOURCE

$13.6 M
14% ANGEL

$816.5 M

INITIAL INVESTMENT BY SECTOR

Over 300 brands in attendance CONSUMER
ENTERPRISE NOTHING TO SAY HEALTH
MAY

21% ENTREPRENEUR 14% PREVIOUS FRC FOUNDER

2012 was the first year in FRC history in which OF JOSH KOPELMAN consumer companies FIRST ROUND RANKS were less than 50% of #6 ON THE MIDAS investment dollars

17% VC 20% OTHER 14% PORTFOLIO FOUNDER REFERRAL

LIST MAY 2
FORBES

CLOSE OF FIRST ROUND CAPITAL IV

AND KENT GOLDMAN AND PHIN BARNES PROMOTED TO PARTNER MAY 9
FIRSTROUND - REDEYE

We’re Nationwide
A GEOGRAPHIC LOOK AT FIRST ROUND COMPANIES

WORKSHOP SCALABLE ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES MAY 23

JUN

WORKSHOP CONTENT MARKETING MAY 30

NEW INVESTMENT, ARTILLERY GAMES JUNE 8
STATES WITH FRC COMPANIES

LUNCH N LEARN, RECRUITING JUNE 13

480,000+
MILES FLOWN BY PARTNERS

FIRST ROUND CAPITAL OFFICES

SF

NYC

Philly

That’s 19 times around the Earth across 7 partners
31,621 ROB HAYES 101,747 HOWARD MORGAN 117,000 JOSH KOPELMAN 40,000 BILL TRENCHARD 47,623 KENT GOLDMAN 80,000 CHRIS FRALIC WORKSHOP - MOBILE WEB ENGINEERING 62,500 PHIN BARNES JUNE 27 DESTINATIONS

Most popular destination

S F

Second most popular destination

NYC

JUL

Internal Innovation
LUNCH N LEARN, COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT JULY11

THE PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND EVENTS THAT ENABLE OUR COMMUNITY

ANNUAL CEO & CTO SUMMITS
DESIGN+STARTUP SF JULY JULY 19

CEO & CTO Summit brought together the First Round Community and senior leaders from companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Yammer, Etsy and Pandora, LinkedIn, Netflix and 30 more to learn how to build better technology companies together
694 QUESTIONS ASKED 1762 ANSWERS PROVIDED

WORKSHOP BUIDLING A WORLD CLASS PRODUCT ORGANIZATION JULY 24

293 1000+ 57 1418 50 FRC Network 300+ 132
HOURS IN BOARD MEETINGS BD CONNECTIONS MADE

PORTFOLIOONLY EVENTS

INTERNAL EVENT ATTENDEES

HOURS OF VIDEO CONTENT CREATED

Our network lets our CEOs ask questions, share content and learn from each other. Every year brings hundreds of questions and thousands of answers.

CANDIDATES PRESENTED TO PORTFOLIO

DOWNLOADS OF MODEL BOARD DECK

131
VENTURE CONCIERGE REQUESTS COMPLETED

786
HOURS SAVED WITH CONCIERGE

AUT

32
DAYS WORTH OF TIME

Our Venture Concierge exists to answer questions that require one-off research. Think of it as an on-demand consulting service.
550 IN 2012

NEW INVESTMENT, SHERPAA AUGUST 8

SERVICE PROVIDER REVIEWS

We built a platform that shows who the best service providers are & who uses them within the community.
1845 OVERALL EMAILS BY PARTNERS PER DAY 200 RECEIVED

NEW INVESTMENT, SHERPAA AUGUST 15
BIZJOURNALS ARTICLE

100 SENT

WORKSHOP - VIRAL GROWTH WITH FACEBOOK AUGUST 22

External Innovation
SEP

LUNCH N LEARN, RECRUITING SEPTEMBER 5

COMMON APPLICATION
First Round Common App gives students WORKSHOP - the world the opportunity to from around CONSUMER SCIENCE comapnies with one apply to 170 portoflio SEPTEMBER 12 application.

DORM ROOM FUND

CYBER MONDAY
26 First Round companies came together to make gift giving just a bit easier and cheaper during the holiday season with exclusive Cyber Monday Offers.

600+
STUDENTS AT INFO SESSION
11 STUDENTS ACCEPTED

500+
STUDENT APPLICATIONS IN THE FIRST TWO WEEKS

Dorm Room Fund is a new kind of venture fund run by students for students.
> MOST CREATIVE APP

170+
LAUNCH OF DORM ROOM FUND SEPTEMBER 24

22,051 26
TOTAL VISITS

12

HACKPR
FIRST ROUND CAPITAL CTO The goal of hackPR is to connect reporters SUMMIT and startups for more in-depth journalism. OCTOBER 3
OCT

WEBSITE LAUNCH
MOST POPULAR BROWSERS

DESIGN+STARTUP

INTERNET EXPLORER CHROME SAFARI FIREFOX MOZILLA ANDROID BROWSER

Over 150 Engineering Leaders from across our portfolio joined us COMPANIES
APPLIED

3000+ 200+

5 22 601
EVENTS SPEAKERS ATTENDEES

PUBLIC EVENTS X 1723 TOTAL EVENT ATTENDEES

ANNOUNCE HACKPR OCTOBER 9
TECHCRUNCH ARTICLE

"Designing for Emergence" by Tom Hulme of IDEO
DESIGN+STARTUP SF

TOWN HALL WITH TRAVIS KALANICK, UBER OCTOBER 9

WORKSHOP SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMZATION OCTOBER 23

Our CEOs
WE’VE BACKED 9 FIRST ROUND FOUNDERS TWICE
GRADUATE COLLEGE EDUCATION

FOUNDERS WITH UNDERGRADUATE TECHNICAL DEGREE

HI MY NAME IS

NOV

93% 43%
OF CEOS WITH AN UNDERGRADUATE BILL TRENCHARD DEGREE OF CEOS WITH A GRADUATE DEGREE

David
There are 11 CEOs named David, making it the most common name

13 FOUNDERS

9 FOUNDERS

8 FOUNDERS

JOINS FIRST ROUND CAPITAL NOVEMBER 1
WSJARTICLE

5 FOUNDERS

5 FOUNDERS

5 FOUNDERS

1

HUSBAND-WIFE FOUNDER DUO

7435.1
AVG TWITTER FOLLOWERS

FIRST ROUND CAPITAL WEBSITE RELAUNCH NOVEMBER 1
FIRSTROUND

Susan and Eric Koger, Modcloth

35.9 20
AVG AGE

AGE OF YOUNGEST FOUNDER

Sahil Lavingia, Gumround
FOUNDER'S VIDEO

DESIGN+STARTUP SF NOV NOVEMBER 1

CYBER MONDAY GIFT SITE NOVEMBER 26
FIRSTROUND - GIFTS
DEC

Annual Holiday Video
CAPPING OFF THE YEAR WITH A BANG.

WORKSHOP MACHINE LEARNING DECEMBER 4

LAUNCH OF FIRST ROUND CAPITAL COMMON APPLICATION DECEMBER 12
TECHCRUNCH ARTICLE

MAKING OF

INC MAGAZINE ENTREPRENEURS TO WATCH DECEMBER 20

“ CALL ME FIRST ROUND STYLE”

60% of Inc.'s Entrepreneurs To Watch are First Round Founders MINUTES WATCHED
INCENTREPRENEURS

236,547
That’s 3,942 hours or 164.2 days of attention

100,000+
TOTAL VIEWS That’s 125% the size of the Cowboys Stadium at capacity TOP TRAFFIC SOURCES

20.2%
MOBILE VIEWS

468
YOUTUBE LIKES

55% DIRECT 14% DIRECT TO HOLIDAY.FIRSTROUND.COM 11% FACEBOOK 10% TECHCRUNCH 7 TWITTER %

Here’s to 2013.
We look forward to continuing to support entrepreneurs in their quest to change the world in 2013

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INVESTMENTS

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EXTERNAL

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