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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. At the other end of the spectrum large funds have gotten even larger in the past few years which has massively increased the amount of consolidation in our industry as 66% of LP money into venture is now concentrated in late-stage or full-cycle VCs. Why is this?

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The Paradox of VC Value-Add

Feld Thoughts

We had a blast together and as we went out to raise our Foundry 2007 fund, Scott made several introductions which resulted in two wonderful, long term LP relationships. Instead, we wanted to be extremely close to the entrepreneurs and do all the work ourselves. They ignored us. We didn’t want associates.