Julie Park

IA Ventures is a $50 million venture fund focused on Big Data tools, technologies and applications. The firm establishes its initial position at the seed stage, either as first-money-in investors, or perhaps following a small friends-and-family round. However, IA is generally looking to establish initial positions in its companies of at least 10% (and sometimes much higher). The firm may well have single-company exposures pushing $5 million.. In short, IA Ventures is a true 'life cycle' fund that reserves heavily, is open to bridging when it makes sense, will on occasion lead internal rounds, and engages in full-contact relationships with its portfolio companies. IA also incubates companies at IA Ventures, having worked on three such opportunities to date.