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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Today there are around 720+ venture studios across the world – half are in Europe. In both North America and Europe, many venture studios in non-major cities are funded by government agencies to stimulate local growth, at times with matching donations from companies.

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

David Teten

Some of the VC fund’s own limited partners will typically invest in a SPV, plus the platform’s members can contribute additional capital. . VCs can do this entirely themselves and/or use companies such as AngelList , CircleUp , FundersClub , OurCrowd , and SeedInvest to create a SPV.

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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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The Future of Israeli unicorns in 2024

VC Cafe

Discount Unicorns – Tiger Global opened its entire portfolio for individual bids in order to provide liquidity to its limited partners, often selling stakes in unicorns at steep discounts. Zombiecorns – according to Calcaslist, these companies aren’t showing the growth, or earnings needed to keep their unicorn status.

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Kernel column: The LP update meeting

The Equity Kicker

As a reminder, LPs, or limited partners, are the investors in venture capital funds. One of our slides today showed VC exits over $100 million since 1996, split between the US and Europe. Another slide showed venture investments in Europe by sector, and provided the basis for a discussion about our sector strategy.

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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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Event Invitation: The London Business School 2011 Private Equity Conference

VC Cafe

This year’s conference will feature keynote speakers Johannes Huth (Managing Director & Head of Europe – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.) and Vincenzo Morelli (Partner – TPG Capital and Chairman of European Private Equity Roundtable). The event is themed “Turning the Corner – Delivering Value over the Next Decade”.This