Episode #10: Lessons from 300+ Venture Capital Fund Pitches

For the final episode of the first season of the Fund81 podcast, I interviewed Jaclyn Freeman Hester from Foundry Group. As someone relatively new to the industry, she has a fresh perspective o...

Generalized Mining: the LPs perspective

Generalized Mining (or ‘mining 2.0’) has emerged as a catchall term that describes the practice of actively participating in one way or another in cryptonetworks in order to generate returns......

Transparency in the entrepreneur-to-LP tech ecosystem #OpenLP

Venture capital used to be a highly opaque industry. Very few firms, accessible only through network, intransparent decision-making processes. From the outside it looked slightly mystical and certainl...

The LP Anti-Portfolio

The idea of an “anti-portfolio” reflects some of the great investments where you had the opportunity to participate but missed for one reason or another. There are many excuses, as you’ll see be...

Predicting the Future of Venture Capital

This is the final of five posts in a series on the history and future of venture capital. While prior installments were retrospective and provide helpful context for this post, they aren’t necessary...

Due Diligence the VCs: Part One, The Limited Partner Perspective

With the recent rise in the number of emerging mangers raising new funds, as well as the trend towards the institutionalization of pre-seed, I’ve been thinking more about frameworks through which to...

Going from a proof of concept fund to an “institutional” venture fund

Over the past several years, we’ve spent considerable time studying and writing about the rapidly evolving emerging manager venture landscape. As illustrated by the chart below (data courtesy of ...