Acquisition IPO Limited Partner Partner 
View from Seed
OCTOBER 11, 2022
The first is that we are welcoming Stephanie Palmeri as the newest Partner at the firm. As someone who has seen multiple companies go from concept to $1B scale (and IPO), her experience and insight will be invaluable to the founders we work with. To this end, we are excited to announce two big developments for NextView.
Steve Blank
MARCH 16, 2016
VC’s raise money from their investors (limited partners like pension funds) and then spread their risk by investing in a number of startups (called a portfolio). BTW, Angel investors do not have limited partners, and often invest for reasons other than just for financial gain (e.g., The Deal With the Devil. (A
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View from Seed
DECEMBER 4, 2019
At the same time, despite some realizations in recent years through M&A, PE acquisitions, and IPOs, the general sense I get from LPs is that the level of distributions don’t quite line up with the unrealized performance. This data seems to line up with the narrative I’m hearing on the ground. . LP Constraints.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 15, 2024
With the IPO window closed, growth funding severely dwindled and multiples down as a result of the public market, unicorns face tough choices in 2024. With limited options for liquidity (M&A or IPO) and significantly less growth capital, unicorns face an uncertain future. trillion, according to CB Insights.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%
Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Startup lifecycle in an IPO Market. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules.
Agile VC
DECEMBER 6, 2012
1) LP Bases Change Over Time – Most healthy VC firms tend to have stable relationships with the limited partners investing with them. Suppose Acme IV invests in the Series D and 6 months later there’s an acquisition offer for Startup X that’s 50% higher than the Series D post-money valuation.
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