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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Another example is Correlation Ventures ($300M+ AUM), a VC firm which co-invests in financings with at least one other new outside VC. Some of the VC fund’s own limited partners will typically invest in a SPV, plus the platform’s members can contribute additional capital. .

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When Bad News Is Actually Good News

Babbling VC

For those of you not in the know, they are one of the largest limited partners ( LP's : investors in venture capital funds) in Europe and are basically in almost all the funds throughout the market. Hence anything from them is going to be based on information that truly represents the situation in Europe. .

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Chronic Under-financing of EU Start-ups Driven by Mindset

Babbling VC

I decided to make a blog post out of this since my answer over on Quora to a similar question seems to have quite a bit of resonance: "Differences in Entrepreneurial Mindset between the US and Europe". At the same time, businesses in Europe have always been forced to make do with less. What does this all boil down to?

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Almost all of them would be characterized as venture capital, with a few exceptions for funds managed by The Blackstone Group ( BX ), Providence Equity Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors. Through 12/31/11, less than 66% of the fund-of-funds called capital had been returned to limited partners. Finance jobs.

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10 challenges investors face in Metaverse and Web3

VC Cafe

Regardless of the space, Limited Partners, investors in venture funds, want to know the ESG (environmental, social and governance) impact of their investments. Meta (formerly Facebook) wants to hire 10,000 engineers in Europe to build the Metaverse. Personally, I disagree with Jack on this one, but his point was made. ?

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