tryb Fintech and Limited Partner Survey 2018

tryb conducted a survey in late October 2018 to obtain views from fintech companies and limited partners (LPs)[1] on a wide range of topics, including market conditions, the fundraising environment an...

BFP #OpenLP Series — How we assess fund investments: (4) PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION

Having in previous articles in this series looked at performance metrics, we will now turn to other important aspects of our due diligence process. How a VC fund manager plans to construct their fund�...

Micro-VCs: A worthwhile investment?

This article presents a top-down analysis of the Micro-VC space in the US and Europe, defined as venture capital funds under $100 million. The article seeks to answer the key question of whether Micro...

The Rise of Unicorn Startups

One of the trends we’ve been tracking here at Top Tier is what we like to call the rise of the “Private Company IPO”. The Private Company IPO reflects the upsurge of rapidly growing “unicorn�...

A New VC Crop of Series A Firms

Believe it or not, this will now be the second blog post on this site about a billion-dollar exit for a shaving-related startup. It was just about three years ago when the startup world learned that U...