The questions LPs can ask for due diligence on diversity and inclusion in VC

It is widely recognised that improving diversity and inclusion in the venture capital and private equity industries is the right thing to do. Not only that, but there is strong evidence that increasin...

Lessons from the Haystack Fund Management Panel

Last week, Haystack hosted an event tailored for emerging fund managers featuring a panel of battle-tested and seasoned GPs. These individuals have many years of relationships with institutional LPs...

The Venture Capital Math Problem Revisited (aka How Could You Be So Wrong?)

I argued that the venture capital business could not sustain more than $20bn a year of new capital coming into it and continue to produce good returns to the investors in VC funds.  The venture capit...

20VC: VINOD KHOSLA ON WHAT VENTURE ASSISTANCE REALLY MEANS, WHY MANY VCS ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO ADVISE FOUNDERS & WHY STARTUPS CAN INNOVATE SO MUCH FASTER THAN INCUMBENTS

Vinod Khosla is the Founder Khosla Ventures, one of the valley’s most renowned firms of the last decade with a portfolio including Square, Affirm, DoorDash, Impossible Foods and OpenDoor just to nam...

Choosing a Venture Capital Fund Administrator

With MergeLane’s new fund and the growth of our portfolio, we’re improving our fund administration processes and considering a few different solutions. Through this process, I’ve realized that I...

#OpenLP: Winter Mead and David Booth

Winter Mead, an LP formerly of Sapphire Partners, and David Booth, co-founder and CEO of OnDeck, join Erik on this episode. They discuss: Assessing fund managers from an LP perspective, and wh...

Late-Night Musings On Portfolio Construction

Without a doubt, the concept of “Portfolio Construction” was the most difficult VC fund management concept for me to get my arms around. To be clear before I write this, and before you read it, by...

US VENTURE CAPITAL IN 2019

US venture capital activity continued to be robust in 2019, overcoming general macro and micro concerns that surfaced during H2 2019. Some key statistics include......

Deriving a venture capital strategy in crypto: the LP’s perspective

Deriving a VC strategy in crypto is hard and requires a) the definition of the opportunity set, b) the right structuring, c) a good strategy to deal with earlier liquidity, and d) an innovative view o...

20VC: LESSONS FROM 150 ANGEL INVESTMENTS INTO THE LIKES OF CARTA, GUSTO, AIRTABLE AND SUPERHUMAN, CREATING ALGORITHMS AND MODELS FOR INVESTING AT SEED

Jude Gomila is the Founder & CEO @ Golden, creating the world’s first self-constructing knowledge database built by artificial and human intelligence. To date, Jude has raised from some of th...

CHARLEY ELLIS ON THE YALE MODEL

As former member of the Investment Committee at Yale, Charley Ellis shared what distinguishes the school’s model of investing....

Deconstructing the Pipeline Myth and the Case for More Diverse Fund Managers

Entrepreneurship is influenced by many factors, including ones that may not seem obvious, like ethnicity and culture. Much has been written about diversity in the startup and venture capital worlds...