Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

What’s a “fair” split of fee income and carried interest when a partner joins several years/funds after others? For example carried interest takes years to accrue and is based on the efforts and decisions of both the individual and the firm that happened 5-10 years ago.

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

However, I will then argue that while these methods are necessary to managing new ventures inside a company, they are insufficient. Worse, Robert Adams and his two partners got 20% of the carried interest in the fund, resulting in payouts of $30 million to the partnership.

Startup 327

Startup Business Model Lean Russia 327

Transformify

MAY 24, 2018

In this role you will work closely with the senior management and executive board, supporting in the businesses planning and strategy.

Finance 40

Finance Carried Interest Forecast Valuation 40

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company. Compensation : base salary, share of profits of management company, carry. Senior partners take home a lower 15 percent of the carried interest….Summarizing

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Partner 60

ithacaVC

JANUARY 10, 2012

Managing Partner/General Partner (I have seen some with Managing Directors too like an investment bank): top dogs that run the shop and own most of the carried interest. Other staff like a controller or CFO; marketing coordinator; investor relations manager; and general counsel. It carries cache.

Partner 49

Partner Carried Interest Caching Harvest 49

ithacaVC

MAY 10, 2011

Capital is called when needed for investment, fund expenses or management fee. Now, there are interesting ways for the GP to fulfill its portion of a capital call using “fee waiver”, but I am not going to address that here. Fourth, GP1 is entitled to a carried interest in fund profits.

Carried Interest 51

Carried Interest Ratchet Limited Partner Due Diligence 51

David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

In response, Tom writes, “The Kauffman data set is exceptionally small in comparison to the others and inherently biased (not in a nefarious way, but in the statistical sense that they had an active management policy that selected their investments and those are the funds for which they have return data).

LP 114

LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

In many cases, fund managers invest 1-5% of the fund size. They want you as a fund manager to be incentivized to make good investments, because you are staking your own cash too. Using a standard 20% carry formula, and after returning most of the gains to the fund’s investors, it means that the team will receive $8m.

Salary 48

Salary Capital Call Bootstrapping Cofounder 48

Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

In many cases, fund managers invest 1-5% of the fund size. They want you as a fund manager to be incentivized to make good investments, because you are staking your own cash too. Using a standard 20% carry formula, and after returning most of the gains to the fund’s investors, it means that the team will receive $8m.

Salary 48

Salary Capital Call Bootstrapping Cofounder 48

BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

I am not sure how many entrepreneurs understand the structure of venture capital funds but the bottom line is that while VCs manage funds, we ultimately report to our investors or Limited Partners (LPs). It is not our money, and we have a fiduciary responsibility to manage it properly and generate the returns our LPs expect of us.

LP 60

LP Private Equity Due Diligence Venture Capital 60

VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

The New York Times says the new fund is a signal that Silicon Valley is being revived, but according to the Wall Street Journal , it was lower fees and carry that facilitated securing the capital: It helped that Battery proactively offered some investor-friendly terms.

North America 76

North America Silicon Valley Private Equity 76

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

And this is a company that has managed to get an A+ list of investors and is executing very well. We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Hunter Walker

MARCH 30, 2023

You’re a big enough advertiser or business partner to have an account manager. When she asked what would I recommend my response wasn’t about getting rid of carried interest or breaking up the big companies but about customer support. You went to grad school with the COO.

United States 67

United States Carried Interest Engineer Viral 67

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds. The definition of “big enough” varies widely but, generally speaking, entities that manage less than $1 billion in assets will often go the indirect route. The first is a staff constraint.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds. The definition of “big enough” varies widely but, generally speaking, entities that manage less than $1 billion in assets will often go the indirect route. The first is a staff constraint.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For those who aren’t familiar, Mobius was a VC fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Boulder CO and at it’s peak Mobius had $2B+ under management. a VC fund’s entire portfolio in aggregate, net of management fees and carried interest) a good return from an LP’s perspective would be 2.5-3.0x

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

Good cash flow management, boiled down to the simplest essence, means that key principles understand every dollar received and every spent and never delegate this key process out. VCs tend to gain most of their returns through carried interest- a percentage received as compensation from the profits of a hedge fund or private equity.

Programming 40

Programming Sweat Equity Startup Private Equity 40

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Meanwhile on the West Coast – “The Group” 1950’s When Ampex was raising its money, in 1952, an employee of Fireman’s Fund in San Francisco, Reid Dennis , managed to put $20,000 in the deal. It would charge its investors annual “management fees” to pay for the firm’s salaries, building, etc.

Silicon Valley 125

Silicon Valley SBIC San Francisco RSS 125

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

In return for the operational role the GPs play, their firm receives a Management Fee. Industry averages for the management fee are expected to be around 2.5% In addition, there is a performance incentive — the Carried Interest or Carry. The carry is typically around 20% of any gains on the fund.

IRR 48

IRR Venture Capital LP Early Stage 48

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 29, 2020

4) We need to push the Federal Government to close the carried-interest tax loophole —but we should do it in such a way where the localities where it gets collected get a share of the income from it. There’s no reason for private equity managers, hedge fund investors or VCs to pay less taxes as a percentage than teachers.

New York 153

New York Vermont Carried Interest New Jersey 153