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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

View from Seed

The trends described above in VC performance have an upstream effect on Limited Partners which is somewhat counter-intuitive. For example, a $10B endowment might be looking to have 10% ($1B) allocated to venture capital at any one time. Most LPs are trying to manage some targeted asset allocation.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Almost all of them would be characterized as venture capital, with a few exceptions for funds managed by The Blackstone Group ( BX ), Providence Equity Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors. JK&B Capital IV (2001): 85% (15%).

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