Co-founder and partner at NextView Ventures, writer on seed strategy and process.
An early definition of the pre-seed round from one of the investors who named the category: what qualifies ($750K or less, pre-product), why the category emerged, and how it chains into institutional seed.
With founders now raising 3-4 rounds before Series A, Go argues the total dilution math forces a choice: decide deliberately which round in the chain you'll skip, and shows how to reason about it.
The investor-side view of pre-seed construction: why NextView prefers small aligned syndicates over large party rounds at this stage, and what that means for founders assembling one.
NextView's Rob Go gives the ultimate guide to raising a venture fund: LP targeting, momentum, first closes — directly analogous to a startup round and full of transferable tactics.