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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