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How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023

VC Cafe

By contrast, they backed 620 funds in the last three months of 2021 First time fund managers hit hard: In 2022, limited partners backed 141 funds run by first-time managers, a 59% decline from the prior year and the lowest number since 2013 How does the constrained LP environment manifest for funds and startups?

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Kindred Spirits – Our Investment In Founder Collective

Feld Thoughts

Lindel joined Foundry Group as a partner to lead the fund investing activity of Foundry Group Next. We’ve had the opportunity to work with Founder Collective’s partners – David Frankel, Eric Paley, and Micah Rosenbloom – over the years on several companies. It starts with the people.

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

Some of the firm’s partners may move on to new jobs during this phase but at least some are usually still around. The entire US economy was booming (in an unsustainable debt binge, in retrospect) from 2004 through much of 2008, and the tech world was booming along with it. So at a fund level (e.g.

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