Michael Coates
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Seven Hill Ventures is launching a $25 MM pre-seed venture fund in San Francisco to back US and Israel cybersecurity startups, leveraging the partner's 3x CISO experience in top tech firms and founder experience. Checks will be 500-750k depoloyed at pre-seed and seed with a 30% reserve for follow-on funding of top performers. Previous microfunds to test this investment theory yeilded top 3% performance with 3.57 TVPI and 2.5 DPI in 5 years and for the second fund, TVPI 1.83 in 2 years.
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