Confluence VC: Nandu Anilal of Canaan Partners

Nandu touches on: the process of learning as a VC, the rise of data-driven companies, themes worth monitoring within data infrastructure, preempting rounds and escaping the competitive fundraising pro...

Venture Unlocked: The Family Office as an LP

Limited partners come in a few different varieties, one of the largest, but also most opaque groups is that of the Family Offices. On this episode of the Venture Unlocked podcast, Jamie Rhode, CFA, Vi...

Fund Recycling Moves the Needle for Both LPs and GPs. Here’s How.

For as powerful of a mechanism as fund recycling can be, we believe it is an under discussed strategy in venture investing. It can transform a good fund into a great fund, and a great fund into an ev...

Metrics that matter most for investors & limited partners

Finding your north star metric as an investor can be confusing. Do you care more about consistent cash flows overtime or a large lump-sum payment later in the future? Do you care about total cash retu...

The Essential Guide to Syndicates

This guide defines what a syndicate is, how to work with syndicates, and why you should consider them as part of your fundraising journey as an organizer, an investor, or a founder....

The LP Perspective: Building an Institutional LP Base

This Carta-hosted panel discussion with Greenspring Associates, Illinois State Treasurer, and Barings shares perspectives from LPs on how they source, evaluate, and work with emerging fund managers an...

The Nuances of LP Investing

This incredible tweet thread from Hustle Fund's Elizabeth Yin dives deep into LP investing, touching on everything from capital calls, to fund recycling, to crowdfunding, to innovation in legal struct...

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...

The danger of venture capital ‘foie gras’

Capital foie gras describes the situation of being force fed, or stuffed, with too much money until you, and the company, choke. With interest rates at an all time low, SPACs everywhere and tech bei...

Dimple Sahni on the future of public and private board diversity, a global landscape perspective

On this episode of the She-VC podcast: The LP perspective on the current state of global investing and board diversity from Dimple Sahni, Managing Director of Impact Funds Portfolios at Anthos Fund an...

Seeding the exception: A flight to safety and back again

We saw record capital deployed into startups in 2020 and no slowdown in financings. But the story isn’t that simple. While venture investing across the board was hitting all-time highs, activity was...

How VC and private equity funds can launch portfolio-acceleration platforms

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. You can’t pick a platform strategy that’s unique, but you ca...