She-VC: Holly Maloney from General Catalyst discusses Rise of Full Stack Venture Capital Fund

VC is a very hard industry to prepare for. There is no MBA or coursework that prepares you for early stage or late stage investing.  Holly Maloney, Managing Director from General Catalyst VC Fund dis...

Fundraising Advice for Emerging GP’s Post-Coronavirus

In part two of this webinar series, we hosted a group of venture experts to discuss how emerging managers can navigate the COVID-19 crisis. The conversation was led by:...

Crisis Coverage w/ Beezer Clarkson – Platform LP; Allocations in a Down-Market; COVID Strategy Drift; and Emerging Manager Selection

Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Ventures joins Nick on a special Crisis Coverage installment to discuss Platform LP; Allocations in a Down-Market; COVID Strategy Drift; and Emerging Manager Selection. In ...

Starting A VC Fund: 7 Key Criteria To Consider

Starting a VC fund is no easy feat. Even when faced with favorable macroeconomic conditions, many of the typical sources of capital available for established VCs are essentially out of reach for first...

Consolidation: the Face of Venture Capital Post COVID-19

In venture capital, the increasing disruption by mega-funds is driving many VCs into the classic innovator’s dilemma: I need to raise bigger funds to survive, but doing so will eventually dilute my ...

20VC: SARAH KUNST ON WHY THERE IS PLENTY OF INVESTOR MONEY STILL AVAILABLE, THE MEGAN MARKLE EFFECT AND HOW IT IMPACTS HIRING AND TALENT & WHETHER GP COMMITS PREVENT DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Sarah Kunst is the Founder and Managing Director @ Cleo Capital with a portfolio including the likes of StyleSeat, Glow Bar and PlateJoy to name a few. Prior to venture, Sarah served as a senior ad...

The VC Tech Stack: Tools for your investor soul

As everything these days seems to move online, it may be a good moment also for investors to sit back and re-evaluate the ways they run their businesses....

Crypto VC portfolio construction: the LP’s perspective

Crypto is an emerging asset class and whilst general investment principles are the same as in conventional markets, their application needs to be re-evaluated and sometimes adapted to cryptoassets’ ...

Feeling Stretched by COVID-19? Outsourcing and Delegating with Foundry Group’s Seth Levine

Seth Levine has been a MergeLane investor and advisor since the very beginning. I invited Seth to join the show because we’ve had some nice conversations about the challenge we each have in managing...

Outside View, Groping & Fluidity In The Equity Chain

Making an investment decision involves both analysis and intuition. These decisions contain an irreducible intuitive component, but when early stage investors rely largely on intuition, growth stage ...

Advice for Emerging Managers in the times of COVID-19

As one of the founders of Equity Summit, I reached out to 59 institutional LPs with a short survey regarding the fundraising climate for emerging managers. Here is what I found out....

Use of Capital call lines for Emerging Managers during economic downturns

The use of capital call lines by venture capital funds has seen a dramatic increase over the last few decades --- Today >50% of VC funds that qualify are using these lines....