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Why the LP Outlook is Good for Venture and Startups in 2017–2020

Both Sides of the Table

Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. We’re trying to limit our exposure.”

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

One dimension is a pretty firm belief that starting financial services companies should not be as hard as it is, and that there is demand in the market for yet another venture fund focused on functionally day-zero companies in financial services. I don’t worry about my anti-portfolio. That’s the only thing I worry about.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. By the same token, Coats could find no correlation between the hot deals (where investor demand was highest) and the hot outcomes. Xconomy on Demand. © 2007-2012, Xconomy, Inc. Biologist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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Announcing K9 Ventures III, L.P. – A $42M technology-focused Pre-Seed fund

K9 Ventures

It was a conscious decision to maintain the fund size at the same level, despite both market pressure (larger rounds at earlier stages) and demand pressure (lots of LP money entering the stage) to raise a larger fund. I would like to thank all the limited partners who entrust me and K9 to invest their capital. was a $40M fund.

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6 Trends Startups Must Cope With In 2013 – From Paul Kedrosky

ReadWriteStart

Startup accelerators were a big story in 2012. It took a few years – and a few thousand failed consumer internet startups – but investors have gone back to the basics and now demand that companies they fund have income, not just a lot of Web users or app downloads. Big data startups were a big deal in 2012.