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Investor profile

Josh Kopelman

Partner, First Round Capital

About

Josh Kopelman is a former multi-time founder who took his first company public in his 20s and sold two others to eBay and Symantec, bringing deep "zero to IPO and acquisition" operating experience to early-stage investing. He's known for creating the "Venture Arrogance Score," a quantitative framework that tests whether very large funds' return expectations are realistic by calculating how much exit value a mega-fund would need to capture to deliver strong returns. Josh Kopelman is a former multi-time founder who took his first company public in his 20s and sold two others to eBay and Symantec, bringing deep "zero to IPO and acquisition" operating experience to early-stage investing. He's known for creating the "Venture Arrogance Score," a quantitative framework that tests whether very large funds' return expectations are realistic by calculating how much exit value a mega-fund would need to capture to deliver strong returns.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Sectors
SaaS
Enterprise
AI
Health
Consumer
Data
FinTech
Deeptech

Investment details

Avg check size$750K - $4M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA
Canada