Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. However, they have been sending VCs far more investment checks in the last ten years than they’ve gotten back as distributions.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite. At least for investment banks the answer is not so clear cut. Transaction Processing.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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VC Adventure

MAY 5, 2022

In markets like this, funds that deploy quickly generate markups on their full portfolio; those that show more patience suffer from an IRR perspective as a larger portion of their fund is yet to be marked up by subsequent financing rounds. Traditionally LPs have viewed this as positive. management fee). Many will not. But not now.

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IRR Metrics Valuation LP 116

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and.

Technical Review 78

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. ” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. One of the investment criteria that I set for K9 Ventures is based on geography.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. ” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. One of the investment criteria that I set for K9 Ventures is based on geography.

Silicon Valley 112

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