Five Questions for Vetting an Investment in a New or Emerging VC Fund

While most of the money that goes into VC funds comes from institutions that are highly experienced in the asset class, some family offices and high net worth individuals also invest in VC. They’re...

Venture Capital’s Access Myth

A myth at its core is a story to explain something complex. Over time, the story is broadly disseminated such that popular consciousness can, at times, accept it as true at face value. At Greenspring ...

Origins Podcast: David Fauchier, Cambrial Capital

David Fauchier is the co-founder of Cambrial Capital, an investment firm based in London deploying a thesis-driven fund of funds strategy focused on the digital assets space. David has previous experi...

A Churning LP Landscape

As a venture investor, we often bemoan churn in our SaaS companies but we’re also seeing churn in our LP base too. Increasing staff turnover in the LP world has been a trend for several years and it...

Origins Podcast: Lindsay Larsen, UVIMCO

Origins is a podcast about Limited Partners, the firms and institutions that invest in venture capital funds. Through a series of interviews, we explore what has historically been an opaque corner of ...

3 Things that Make a Great Limited Partner For A Venture Fund

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Crypto VC Portfolio Management: Navigating the Opportunities and Challenges of Illiquid Liquidity

Portfolio management for traditional venture capital funds has historically been relatively straightforward. The big decisions are number of deals per fund, initial check size and follow-on/reserves s...

18 charts to illustrate US VC in 2018

Over the past couple of years, the term "record-breaking" has frequently been used to describe the state of venture capital in the US, as the space hits new heights with deal value, mega-rounds and fu...

BFP #OpenLP Series (5) — How much to charge for an SPV

Many VC managers use single-asset, special purpose vehicles (SPVs) to give their LPs access to direct investment opportunities in their portfolio companies. SPVs increase the manager’s fee-generatin...

2018 Year in Review

2018 ended up being a distinctive year for venture capital, just about any way you look at it. Despite a decreasing deal count, the industry managed to reach recent highs in invested capital, total va...