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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

View from Seed

The longer the portfolio maintains the same value without distributing back cash, the worse the fund’s ultimate IRR. This equates to something in the neighborhood of a 10% IRR, which isn’t great given the illiquidity of the asset class and strength of the public markets. So, is this good or bad?

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Israeli VC Funds Struggled to Raise in 2009

VC Cafe

In 2010, the capital available for investment in first round and follow on rounds now stands on $1.2 The Carmel I Fund, raised in 2000, had the highest performance, giving an internal rate of return (IRR) of 8% and a positive multiple of 1.4. Other funds, including Apax Israel II, Israel Seed IV and JVP showed negative IRRs of 20-30%.

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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2010: A Market on the Rebound”. Time Period. Total Investments. Exited Investments. 1994 – present. Band of Angels Website FAQ. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2011: The Recovery Continues”. 2008-09.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. If you look at the spreadsheet, you will see that the “Required Rate of Return” is expressed as an IRR.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. Traditional KPIs are, in descending order of importance: IRR (and secondarily Multiple). I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Many of my board members are still there, a decade later. .

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Paul Graham and The World Out There

This is going to be BIG.

My own track record as a VC across First Round Capital and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures actually starts in January of 2010, *after* the Airbnb class of Winter 2009. My total valuation multiple across that span is nearly 4x and the return rate is up over 110% IRR. That''s 25%. a far higher rate than YC has appeared to have done since then.

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

Professor VC

His latest venture, Bharosa, was sold to Oracle for a 6X multiple in 3 years to his angel investors, a sweet close to triple digit IRR. April 4, 2010 8:34 AM. ► 2010. (7). Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).