VC Adventure
MAY 21, 2014
A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates - enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). How AngelList Syndicates (and FG Angels) Works. We were the first formal venture fund to do this.
VC Adventure
MAY 21, 2014
A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates – enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). How AngelList Syndicates (and FG Angels) Works. We were the first formal venture fund to do this.
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David Teten
JULY 12, 2017
When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” They don’t automatically invest just because we invested; they usually move more slowly than the company’s management team wants. .
David Teten
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. Many private equity funds we interviewed for the Journal of Private Equity study view a CEO over age 60, or a family-run company that hires an outside manager, as a tell that the firm may welcome an outside investor.
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. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.
David Teten
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents.
David Teten
JULY 11, 2019
In practice, sometimes we cannot exercise these rights, as company management may ask us to make room for certain desired new investors. Ranked in descending order of frequency of use, they are: 1) Syndicate the investment out to coinvestors, without charging any fee. Today’s mega VCs all started as high-returning small VCs.
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