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How VCs Structure a Syndicate and Recruit Coinvestors

David Teten

The challenge with most such independent investors is that they, quite reasonably, all have their own independent decision-making and due diligence process. Although EquityZen is primarily an online marketplace for secondary shares in private companies, they also offer syndicated primary investments. Market Insight.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

In either case, corporations have to set up their investment vehicles so that the venture capital community sees them as serious players. Teten: How do corporate VCs interact with the broader VC community? . Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate.

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Announcing NextView Ventures II

Rob Go

2) Is your reputation in the market such that great people will want to work with you? Prospective LPs evaluating NextView tend to focus their due diligence on conversations with these folks as well as other trusted participants in the startup community that are likely to have a POV on us.