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Denouement

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Late stage rounds help keep companies private longer and eventually Facebook proves to be a blockbuster company… public equity investors hope to find the next Facebook pre-IPO. During these years you do see the rise of “cross-over” investment in private companies by large public market investors like Fidelity, T.

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

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For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below). What Are These Intermediaries? Why Write About This Now?

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