I'm not sure how many investors is a lot, but 17 sounds like a lot for a seed round. In my experience (two rounds, two different start-ups) the seed stage was a

I'm not sure how many investors is a lot, but 17 sounds like a lot for a seed round. In my experience (two rounds, two different start-ups) the seed stage was around 3-4 investors. What's a "normal" amount? I understand the number of investors is limited at some point and might even make acquisitions difficult down the road.