LP Management Portfolio San Francisco 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. She had all of the skills and traits we sought? I remember years ago trying to recruit Kara.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 24, 2017
Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective. It starts with the people.
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Version One Ventures
JULY 31, 2018
Since 2012, we have made over 40 investments and have been busy building our fund, expanding and deepening our network, and most gratifyingly, working with our portfolio companies in their pursuit to transform their industries and the world. Executing projects of your own direction that help Version One and/or our portfolio companies.
K9 Ventures
AUGUST 14, 2017
It was a conscious decision to maintain the fund size at the same level, despite both market pressure (larger rounds at earlier stages) and demand pressure (lots of LP money entering the stage) to raise a larger fund. Fund I, which I often refer to as a demonstration fund, started in 2009 with $6.25M under management. was a $40M fund.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 14, 2015
I spoke at Michael Kim’s excellent annual Cendana VC/LP conference today. You can read it in VCs discussions about hedge fund managers, activist investors or the need to have dual-share voting structures. Today I called it, “our own little VC led, portfolio-by-portfolio company version of RIP Good Times from 7 years ago.”
Hunter Walker
APRIL 4, 2014
As we approach Homebrew’s one year anniversary we’ll do a smaller scale meeting with our investors in San Francisco. traditional institutional LPs such as fund of funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds ( our investors ). The result has been many new managers, many new funds. family offices.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2018
There is an old management saying, “measure twice, cut once” which refers to the benefit of doing some planning. I literally have a Google Sheet for nearly every portfolio company who is in the process of raising a round. If you’re raising a seed round (say $1.5m) and the firm you’re talking to manages $1.2 Super busy partner.
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