Origins Podcast: Manu Kumar, K9 Ventures

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 ...

Fund Investing Versus Fund Management

When I started out investing (via a fund — not my money), I was just investing based on a simple schedule: About once a month, invest $25K into one company I liked. Pretty easy. Over the years, that...

Using data to shorten VC learning cycles

Max Niederhofer recently wrote a very thoughtful piece reflecting on the psychology of venture capital called “Fear and loathing in Venture Capital”. One of the core points he discusses is how dif...

20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers & The Current State of Seed Today

20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring As...

Fairview Capital 2018 Market Review of Woman and Minority-Owned Private Equity Firms

The universe of woman and minority-owned private equity firms grew and evolved significantly in 2018, rising to 312 at year-end, up from 240 at the end of 2017. The increase represented the largest ev...

The LP Perspective with Beezer Clarkson, Lisa Edgar, Chris Douvos, & Teddy Schleifer

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The Shifting Funding Landscape – Slush 2018

Should VCs fight against the incentive of growing? How do ICOs and other instruments affect traditional equity investing? To what scale does the role of a VC expand to nowadays? A group of prominent i...

Europe’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem – Looking to the Future by Understanding the Past

Beezer Clarkson and Colette Ballou will draw on their myriad of experience as investors and entrepreneurs, and discuss the up and down cycles in European technology landscape and where they think thin...

Building Billion Dollar European Companies

Hear the learnings and observations from Magnus, Co-founder of iZettle and Måns, CEO and Chairman of Qliktech, on what it takes to build companies of such stature in terms of talent management, manag...

A data driven view of Emerging VC

Recently, we surveyed a group of US emerging manager venture firms to assess a variety of metrics including performance, fundraising experiences, and portfolio construction strategies....

2018 State of Terms in Venture Capital

The 2018 Different State of Terms in Venture Capital report is the first and most in-depth review of terms and structures that venture capital funds are offering to prospective Limited Partners (LPs)....