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Venture Fund Portfolio Construction Tool
This interactive tool from Kauffman Fellows explores venture portfolio construction and the various trade off implications a GP must consider. It enables you to construct your own portfolio to underst...
Emerging Managers | Investment Strategy | Investment Strategy
The VC Framework For Optimizing Success: The Kauffman Fellows Four Pillars
The venture capital industry is as asymmetrical an industry as any; the top 1% to 4% of venture investments usually get the outsized (10x+) returns. However, this begs the question: is investing in...
Benchmarking
We surveyed 90 top VCs globally on investing, raising funds, and portfolio support in the COVID era
In moments of uncertainty, it helps to gather a cumulative idea of how VCs at top performing funds around the world are thinking. We reached out directly to 90 venture capital partners at prominent ...
Emerging Managers | LP Perspectives | LP Perspectives
A Better LP Model for Micro-VC and Emerging Managers
Raising capital from limited partners is hard. It’s harder if you are pitching a micro-VC strategy. But it becomes the hardest to raise during a global crisis like we are in today. But outside of th...
Emerging Managers | Market Trends | Market Trends
The Hard Questions Venture Capital GPs Need to Be Prepared For
As a GP, courting LPs can be a very ambiguous process. You might go in with the full range of optimism and skepticism. Regardless, if you haven’t done the inner work of evaluating yourself, your par...
ESG and Diversity
Data Show that Gender-Inclusive Founding Teams Have Greater Success in Fundraising and Innovation
The glass ceiling is being chipped away more and more each year, but the task of shattering it is far from over. In the ever-evolving realm of startups and venture capital in the United States, we ...
Firm and Fund Management | Investment Strategy
Un-learnings from a VC-Turned-LP: Risk and Reward Paradigm Shift, Part 1
Ben Choi has a unique perspective on investment intuition. He started out as a venture capitalist investing in early-stage startups and then became a Limited Partner, which gives him a comprehensive ...
Emerging Managers | Fundraising | Fundraising
Communication Strategies with Existing LPs: Part 2 of VC/LP Relations
In this second part of Intimacy and transparency: VC/LP relations with Chris Douvos, we dive deep into the actual output LPs want to see from their GPs. Meaning quarterly emails, annual meetings, comm...
Emerging Managers | LP Perspectives | LP Perspectives
6 Common Pitfalls VCs Make With LPs: Part 3 of VC/LP Relations
In this last part of Intimacy and transparency: VC/LP relations with Chris Douvos, we dive deep into common pitfalls that VCs and their firms oftentimes fall into when engaging with LPs during the fun...
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