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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

While the M&A story has been widely reported perhaps far fewer people know that Limited Partners (LPs), the people who fund VC firms, have finally been able to restock their coffers in the past 4 years with significantly more money coming to them in distributions than capital calls to fund VC firm investments.

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How to Do Research on VCs (Written by a VC)

View from Seed

And of course, many individual VCs blog or have social media presences, so you can get a sense of what a particular partner is interested in or what themes they’ve concentrated on. For example, when an entrepreneur asks about capital calls, what they really care about is, “Are you guys still actively making new investments at present?”