Bullpen Capital
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                United States
                                                 -                                                 Menlo Park, CA
                                                                                            
                                                                                    - 28/11/2022
 - Series A
 - $10,000,000
 
Bullpen Capital invests in post-seed companies that have achieved product-market fit, but have not yet proven sufficient market scalability to raise a major VC round.  We invest in companies that have an operational plan to hit big milestones within a 12-month period, and we work closely with the companies in our portfolio to develop this early traction into large, sustainable businesses.
Seed financing is now more of a process than an event, with multiple rounds of investment layered into the early stages of startup companies.  The "post-seed" stage is often the inflection point of value, the last lean money in before a “super-sized” A round.  Bullpen’s strategy aims to provide leverage for founding teams, who can minimize dilution to maintain ownership and control of their companies, while retaining the option of choosing either a quick acquisition or raising major growth capital to go for a big win.
- Industry Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
 - Website https://bullpencap.com/
 - LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/bullpen-capital/
 
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Eric WiesenInvestor
                                                    
                                                                                                                United States -
                                                         San Francisco, California
                                                    
                                                Eric is a General Partner with Bullpen Capital, the leader and creator of the post-seed investment category. 
Eric joined Bullpen in 2015 from RRE Ventures, where he was a General Partner. Current areas of focus include financial services and technology, consumer products and manufacturing, marketing technology and next-generation computer interfaces. Much of his investing philosophy and approach is informed by his experiences as a two-time founder, first in the 3D Graphics hardware space and later in the enterprise software/ERP sector. Eric is also an attorney, and practiced in the corporate group at Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley. As an undergraduate, he was an intern in the only very famous White House internship class.
Eric holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, a JD from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Columbia University. He is an alumnus of the Kauffman Fellows program. 
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