Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. So as of 2008 total LP commitments were still at nearly $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.
Agile VC
OCTOBER 23, 2012
The VC industry (both the GP part and the LP part) pays attention to the sector’s returns, but the broader tech ecosystem only occasionally tunes in. LPs investing in venture hold a subset of all the funds in the VC universe by design (see #4 & 5). What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask?
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Feld Thoughts
JULY 31, 2014
In addition to being an incredibly supportive investor in us from the beginning, this LP has become an extremely close friend. As I was walking home after dinner, I thought about the person who had introduced us to this LP. The wonderful dinner last night with the LP Fred introduced me to reminded me of this.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. Thomson Reuters data shows that around $10 billion of LP money went into VCs per year pre bubble. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 25, 2013
But as an LP you can’t count on that any more than VCs can. The goal of an LP is to get into the top decile. When it went to raise its fund 10 years ago the rumor was that many LPs were disappointed with recent returns and did not re-up. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 28, 2014
Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. On paper, only one is in positive return territory as a fund, but the SBIC leverage is a substantial negative factor for the LP investors in that particular fund. The US government, however, lost most of the $2 billion it put into SBIC firms.”
The Equity Kicker
JANUARY 11, 2013
I was chatting with a friend last night about the lack of institutional investor (LP) interest in European venture capital as an asset class. There have been many difficult periods for the industry in my 13 year career as a VC, most notably after the internet and banking busts of 2000 and 2008, and I expect there will be more in the future.
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