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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

Both Sides of the Table

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back. LPs See The Over-Valuations and Don’t Like It.

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On the Road to Recap:

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In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

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