Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 6, 2017
Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
A more efficient approach to fundraising than haphazard networking is to mine the data exhaust from the limited partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.
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abovethecrowd.com
APRIL 20, 2016
Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. This is uncharted territory.
David Teten
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. From the point of view of a limited partner, the great challenge is scaling the business. Our finance team acts as an outsourced CFO. What was striking was what an attractive asset class it was.
www.xconomy.com
JUNE 9, 2012
Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. venture investments since 1987. Raising the firm’s initial $165 million was a three-year overnight success,” Coats says.
K9 Ventures
MAY 14, 2011
They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. The limited partners may themselves run the gamut from individuals, family offices, venture capital funds to institutional LPs. <$50K in aggregate. 10K – $100K. Full-time /.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.). Because you have multiple forces at work. Volume has no doubt picked up at active firms. So eventually the money has to start flowing.
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