Finance LP Portfolio Seed Stage 
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
Consumers pulled their money out of these risky investments, but when LPs make commitments to VC funds they make 10-year, legally binding commitments. So as of 2008 total LP commitments were still at nearly $250 billion. I was at dinner with a large LP and mentioned that I had heard the industry would shrink by 50%.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 24, 2017
We also know many of the entrepreneurs in their portfolio. From those founders, we are aware that FC takes their mission “to be the most aligned fund to founders at the seed stage” very seriously. In general, these investments were rarely competitive at the time of their first financing.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. At the other end of the spectrum large funds have gotten even larger in the past few years which has massively increased the amount of consolidation in our industry as 66% of LP money into venture is now concentrated in late-stage or full-cycle VCs. Why is this?
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 12, 2014
It’s why I often advise angel investors to be careful about assuming that being an angel investor is a profitable exercise unless you have the ability to have a wide-enough portfolio to have a few companies doing extraordinarily well plus deep enough pockets to follow your winners. Thus begins the dance.
Haystack
JULY 20, 2018
This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Haystack Portfolio Data. Well, that time has finally come. These questions have been rattling around my brain.
David Teten
MARCH 18, 2021
Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries. Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. 3) Geography-defined funds.
Babbling VC
OCTOBER 3, 2011
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. Hypothesis 3: Insufficient diversification in European VC managers’ portfolios .
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