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Carl Showalter

Carl Showalter is a founding General Partner with Opus Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on seed and Series A technology investing. Prior to Opus Capital, Carl was a General Partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners. Previously, he served as Vice President of Marketing at Juniper Networks, and before that was Vice President of Dial and Broadband Services for UUNET. He also held various sales and management positions at ANS, an AOL company. Carl began his career at Bellcore, focusing on network security and data service delivery. Carl holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MS degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University.

Posts by Carl Showalter

When seed funding is better than Series A

Carl Showalter | October 9th, 2007 | 15 Comments »

It’s surprising how often I meet with first-time entrepreneurs who tell me they need $5 million.
Not many companies need that amount in their first round of funding. Much of the time, what they need at the earliest stage is enough money to prove the concept and mitigate some initial risk. Often, what they require is [...]

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