I'm pretty sure Ron Conway is not a zombie VC.
With David Lee moving to LA and Ron Conway much more involved in politics, I'll be watching
dmor said:
> on a regular 1-2 Series A deal a month pattern before that
I think that's enough that it could lead some founders to look to SV Angel for Series A funding. It may be only a fraction of what they did, but it's still useful for people to be informed of this, because Ron Conway didn't announce his intentions in the matter.
I work at Quotidian, and I agree it's a bit amusing to see our name there, since we're almost exclusively an angel fund. (Perhaps flattering, to be mistaken for a larger firm!).
To give you an idea of how 'dead' we are, note that the spreadsheet lists the date of our most recent angel investment as this week!
The goal is noble - the spreadsheet should be taken as a starting point, not a finishing point.
As you suggest, another interesting post might be listing the truly inactive firms who have not made any investment at all in 6+ months
Understood, I just wanted to point out that there are legitimate reasons to go six months (or longer) without investing. The metric is helpful, but, like any isolated metric, not comprehensive.
Thanks for taking the time to put this together - very interesting data.