First Round Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies. Managed by Josh Kopelman, Chris Fralic, Rob Hayes and Howard Morgan, the Philadelphia-based company typically provides seed-stage investment that ranges from $250,000 to $500,000. The company seeks to take an active role in the operations of the companies in which they invest, often investing in pre-revenue companies.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:Company/industry
dbpedia-owl:Organisation/foundationDate
  • 2004-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:Organisation/location
dbpedia-owl:Organisation/type
dbpedia-owl:foundationDate
  • 2004-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:industry
dbpedia-owl:location
dbpedia-owl:thumbnail
dbpedia-owl:type
dbpprop:abstract
  • First Round Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies. Managed by Josh Kopelman, Chris Fralic, Rob Hayes and Howard Morgan, the Philadelphia-based company typically provides seed-stage investment that ranges from $250,000 to $500,000. The company seeks to take an active role in the operations of the companies in which they invest, often investing in pre-revenue companies. "We think of ourselves as baby-nurses, not baby-sitters," says Howard Morgan, former professor at the Wharton School of Business, and partner at First Round Capital. Since its inception in 2004, First Round Capital has backed more than 70 companies, including VideoEgg, ScanScout, myYearbook, Knewton, Wikia, Weatherbill, Yieldex Jingle Networks, Odeo, LinkedIn, Eventful, Krugle, Ambient Devices, del. icio. us, IronPort, RockYou!, Wikia and several other firms. First Round Capital, while still in its very early years, has already generated significant returns for its investors from acquisitions such as StumbleUpon by eBay for $75 million and Mint. com by Intuit for $170 million .. For Christmas (2008) the company produced a video holiday card in homage to the hit YouTube video "Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)" in which its portfolio company executives were depicted dancing; the video became a viral hit.
dbpprop:companyLogo
dbpprop:companyName
  • First Round Capital
dbpprop:companyType
dbpprop:date
  • March 2008
dbpprop:foundation
  • 2004 (xsd:integer)
dbpprop:homepage
dbpprop:industry
dbpprop:location
dbpprop:reference
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • First Round Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies. Managed by Josh Kopelman, Chris Fralic, Rob Hayes and Howard Morgan, the Philadelphia-based company typically provides seed-stage investment that ranges from $250,000 to $500,000. The company seeks to take an active role in the operations of the companies in which they invest, often investing in pre-revenue companies.
rdfs:label
  • First Round Capital
skos:subject
foaf:depiction
foaf:homepage
foaf:name
  • First Round Capital
foaf:page