Origins: Lisa Edgar, Top Tier Capital Partners

Lisa Edgar is a Managing Director and member of the Investment Committee at Top Tier Capital Partners. She focuses on manager selection, due diligence and investment monitoring of Top Tier’s primary...

Do Emerging Fund Managers Outperform More Established VCs?

Today we address our first question:  Do Emerging Fund Managers Outperform More Established VCs?  The bottom line is that YES, emerging fund managers have a slight edge compared to more establishe...

Adding Value in Today’s Venture Capital Market with Peterson Ventures’ Ben Capell

The proliferation of venture capital funds, accelerators, and other startup resources has left many VCs wondering how to deliver unique value to their portfolio companies and how to scale that value t...

Karey Barker, founder of Cross Creek on an Emerging Asset Class: Late Stage Private Growth Companies

Karey Barker founded Cross Creek Advisors, a growth-focused venture capital firm, inside of $22b Wasatch Global Investors in 2006. Cross Creek invests in leading venture-backed companies and venture f...

My thoughts on the Rolling Fund product

Recently, AngelList's Rolling Fund product has been a frequent topic of discussion within early-stage investing circles. Over the last few weeks, I've had dozens of conversations with LP's and GP's to...

Alpha Bridge Deck Review – By SuperLP Chris Douvos

This week we are sharing the complete deck we used to raise Alpha Bridge Ventures Fund I. More importantly, Chris Douvos, the Super LP, agreed to do a slide by slide commentary for us so that you ge...

Family Office Venture Capital Outlook 2020

At the start of 2020, Kauffman Fellows and First Republic Bank surveyed family offices (“FO”) to better understand their current investment theses and outlooks. We ran the survey again to explore ...

Virtual Annual Meetings are Here to Stay: Best Practices for Re-Imagining the AGM for our Remote World

Love them or hate them, virtual annual meetings (AGMs) are here to stay for now. Given this shift, and my observations from numerous virtual annual meetings I have attended in the last couple months, ...