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Where Do Venture Capital Dollars Actually Come From? This Visual Explains

Agile VC

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds. Typically, there are four basic reasons why an organization would invest indirectly.

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

It’s true that FoFs provide LPs a way to purchase VC funds in a basket, but by design these are comparatively narrow actively-managed investment funds rather than broad-based passive vehicles. The same is not true for venture capital of course, since the underlying startups VCs invest in aren’t publicly selling their equity.

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds. Lee’s posts also appear regularly on View From Seed. Subscribe here for more.

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