#OpenLP: Beezer Clarkson and Aydin Senkut

Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Ventures and Aydin Senkut of Felicis Ventures join Erik on this episode. They discuss: - Their perspectives on the operator-angel and nano-fund trends. - How to think ab...

20VC: LESSONS FROM 150 ANGEL INVESTMENTS INTO THE LIKES OF CARTA, GUSTO, AIRTABLE AND SUPERHUMAN, CREATING ALGORITHMS AND MODELS FOR INVESTING AT SEED

Jude Gomila is the Founder & CEO @ Golden, creating the world’s first self-constructing knowledge database built by artificial and human intelligence. To date, Jude has raised from some of th...

CHARLEY ELLIS ON THE YALE MODEL

As former member of the Investment Committee at Yale, Charley Ellis shared what distinguishes the school’s model of investing....

MEET FIRST ROUND CAPITAL’S NEWEST PARTNER, HOW TO APPROACH GENERATIONAL TRANSITION AS A VENTURE FIRM & THE DANGERS OF ATTRIBUTION IN VENTURE

Todd Jackson is First Round Capital‘s newest Partner having spent the last 2 years as a Founder-in-Residence working with the FRC portfolio. Prior to his time in venture, Todd spent close to 3 yea...

“Portfolio Construction” w/ Beezer Clarkson, Alda Leu Dennis and Trae Vassallo

This is a special episode of Origins focused entirely on the concept of VC portfolio construction. We recorded this discussion as a panel with three guests that provide different perspectives on this ...

BEEZER CLARKSON – SAPPHIRE GEM OF EARLY STAGE VENTURE (EP.120)

Beezer Clarkson is Managing Director at Sapphire Ventures where she is responsible for the management of Sapphire’s fund investments in early stage venture funds globally.  Her career through direc...

20VC: PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION, OPTIMISING SPVS, OPPORTUNITY INVESTING: SUMEET GAJRI, CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER @ CARTA

Sumeet Gajri is the Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta, the startup that helps companies and investors manage their cap tables, valuations, investments, and equity plans. Sumeet is largely responsible f...

Podcast: Chad Byers, Susa Ventures

Chad Byers is a co-founder and partner at Susa Ventures, a seed-stage venture fund based in SF that has backed companies like Robinhood, Flexport, and Andela. Chad discusses growing up in Silicon Vall...

Scott Kupor – Andreessen Horowitz (FIRST MEETING, EP.07)

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z for the 16 letters between the A in Andreessen and the z in Horowitz. He is responsible for all operational aspects of ru...

NEAL TRIPLETT AND KIM LEW – ISSUES OF MANAGEMENT AT DUKE AND CARNEGIE (EP.116)

Neal Triplett is the CIO of DUMAC, the organization that oversees Duke University’s $19 billion endowment, and Kim Lew is the CIO of the Carnegie Corporation, where she manages the $3.5 billion foun...

20VC: HOW TO THINK THROUGH PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION AND THE BUSINESS MODEL OF VC

Adam D’Augelli is a Partner @ True Ventures, one of the West Coast’s leading early-stage funds with a portfolio including the likes of Fitbit, Peloton, Hashicorp, Tray.io, Ring, Automattic (mak...

Origins podcast with Lo Toney, Plexo Capital

Lo Toney is the founding managing partner of Plexo Capital, a new $42.5 million fund incubated inside of GV focused on making investments in seed-stage VC firms led by women or people of color. In add...

Chris Douvos: Ahoy Capital’s Founder is One-of-a-Kind

Chris Douvos has a rare job.  There are very few venture capitalists in the world.  There’s an even more scarce job, however:  Several ‘fund-of-funds” exist that provide capital to venture...

ANNE MARTIN – PULLING THE OARS AS CIO OF WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (EP.114)

Anne Martin is the Chief Investment Officer for Wesleyan University, where she manages the school’s $1 billion endowment.  Anne’s career started in the tech world and shifted to endowment managem...

20VC: BOXGROUP’S DAVID TISCH ON WHETHER CONCENTRATED INVESTING AT SEED WORKS, DO FOUNDERS REALLY WANT DIRECT FEEDBACK AND IS IT GOOD FOR THEM & WHY CONSUMER SOCIAL IS INTERESTING AGAIN

David Tisch is the Founder & Managing Partner @ BoxGroup, one of the leading early-stage firms in NYC with a portfolio that includes the likes of Flexport, RigUp, Ro, Glossier, Clearbit, PillPa...

Origins Podcast with Paul Mace, Tufts University

Paul Mace is the Director of Investments for Private Equity and Real Estate in the Tufts University Investment Office. He is responsible for evaluating private market managers and their investment str...

Leaders Live: Lo Toney, Founding Partner at Plexo Capital

Lo talks about his mentors Shellye Archambeau & Ken Coleman (Mentor to Ben Horowitz) & starting Plexo Capital, a venture fund formed inside GV (formerly Google Ventures). The fund is based on...

20VC: INSIDE THE MIND OF A LEADING LP: HOW LPS EVALUATE NEW FUND MANAGERS ON EVERYTHING FROM FIRST MEETING TO PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION TO FEES AND CARRY WITH LISA EDGAR, MANAGING DIRECTOR @ TOP TIER CAPITAL PARTNERS

Lisa Edgar is a Managing Director @ Top Tier Capital Partners, one of the leading venture fund of funds over the last decade. Included in their stellar fund portfolio is the likes of Index, Initiali...

The LP Perspective and the #OpenLP Reboot with Beezer Clarkson

Beezer Clarkson invests in early-stage venture funds primarily in the US, Europe and Israel as the managing director at Sapphire Partners (the division within Sapphire Ventures that invests in ventur...

Assessing Hustle with the Hustle Fund

Elizabeth Yin, co-founder and general partner at the Hustle Fund, shared her thoughts on how to assess a startup’s ability to “hustle”. Her thoughts are applicable to venture capitalists, start...

20VC: WORKLIFE VENTURES’ BRIANNE KIMMEL ON WHY MORE OPERATORS SHOULD START THEIR OWN FUND, HOW TO STRUCTURE YOUR ROUND FOR THE HIGHEST SIGNAL ROUND & WHAT THE MULTI-STAGE FUNDS PLAYING AT SEED MEANS FOR THE REST OF THE ASSET CLASS

Brianne Kimmel is the Founder and Managing Partner @ Work Life Ventures, a very new firm focused on the future of work backed by some of the best in the valley including Marc Andreesen, Chris Dixon,...

20VC: BRAD FELD ON WHY MARKET SIZE AT EARLY STAGE IS NOT HELPFUL

Brad Feld is Managing Director @ Foundry Group, one of the most successful venture firms of the last decade with a portfolio that includes the likes of Zynga, Fitbit, SendGrid and many more incredib...

20VC: HAYSTACK’S SEMIL SHAH ON HOW FUND STRATEGY CHANGES WITH FUND SCALING & WHY THE HARDEST CHALLENGE IS PRICE DISCIPLINE

Semil Shah is the Founder & General Partner @ Haystack, one of the valley’s leading seed funds of the last 5 years with a portfolio including the likes of Instacart, DoorDash, Carta, OpenDoor,...

Beezer Clarkson hosts Anne Martin, CIO of Wesleyan University

In this special episode of Origins, Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Partners hosts Anne Martin, the Chief Investment Officer of Wesleyan University. Anne was previously a Director of Investments at Yale U...

Episode #7: Venture Capital Liquidity: Innovative Solutions for Today and the Future

Venture capital funds are typically structured to have a 10-year lifespan, but venture-backed companies often take more than 10 years to achieve an exit and return capital to their investors. So what...

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...

The LP Perspective: Alex Bangash

Alex Bangash (@AlexBangash), founder of Trusted Insight, joins Erik as part of our LP series. They talk about: - The myth, according to Alex, that there are such things as “good pickers” in ventu...

The LP Perspective: Michael Kim

Michael Kim (@MKRocks), founder and managing partner of Cendana Capital, joins Erik on this episode to talk about what LPs look for in venture funds and the future of the industry. They discuss......

20VC: BENCHMARK’S BILL GURLEY ON 5 TRAITS BENCHMARK LOOK FOR WHEN ADDING TO THE PARTNERSHIP, WHY THE ABUNDANCE OF CAPITAL IS TODAY’S BIGGEST CHALLENGE IN VC

Bill Gurley is a General Partner @ Benchmark Capital, one of the most successful funds of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Uber, Twitter, Dropbox, WeWork, Snapchat, StitchFix,...

Episode #13: Mental Health in Venture Capital with Brad Feld

In this Fund81 podcast episode, I invited Brad Feld, founding partner of Foundry Group, to share his thoughts on maintaining mental health in the fast-paced venture capital world and supporting por...

20VC: WHY HISTORICAL LOSS RATIOS ARE SIMPLY TOO HIGH, JONATHAN HSU, CO-FOUNDER AND GENERAL PARTNER @ TRIBE CAPITAL

Jonathan Hsu is Co-Founder & General Partner @ Tribe Capital, one of Silicon Valley’s newest funds on the block being founded by Jonathan, Arjun Sethi and Ted Maidenberg. To date, Tribe has in...

20VC: WHY PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION IS INEFFICIENT, WHY THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IN VENTURE IS PRICING & THE FUTURE OF VENTURE

Zach Coelius is Managing Partner @ Coelius Capital and in his own words, “a pretty eclectic investor who loves to see just about any deal”. To date, Zach has made investments in the likes of mPa...

20MinVC Podcast with Sarah Smith, Bain Capital Ventures

Sarah Smith is a Partner @ Bain Capital Ventures, a leading US venture fund with a portfolio that includes the likes of LinkedIn, Lime, SendGrid, Jet.com and more incredible companies. As for Sarah,...

The Future of Investing from an LP’s Perspective

In this episode, we hosted a panel on the future of investing from a LP. perspective. The panel was hosted by the amazing Female Founders Fund at an event in san Francisco on Monday, March 11th. ...

Origins – Episode 42 – Notation hosts David Fauchier, Cambrial Capital

David Fauchier is the co-founder of Cambrial Capital, an investment firm based in London deploying a thesis-driven fund of funds strategy focused on the digital assets space......

Origins Podcast: David Fauchier, Cambrial Capital

David Fauchier is the co-founder of Cambrial Capital, an investment firm based in London deploying a thesis-driven fund of funds strategy focused on the digital assets space. David has previous experi...

Origins Podcast: Lindsay Larsen, UVIMCO

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Origins Podcast – Launching Season 4 with Ryan Nece of Next Play Capital

Two years ago, we launched an experiment called the Origins Podcast, a series of interviews focused on the Limited Partner ecosystem. We did this for a few different reasons — (1) We wanted to f...

Turning the Tables on Notation Capital

I recently had the privilege of interviewing Nicholas Chirls and Alex Lines of Notation Capital on their Origins podcast about raising their new $27m fund, Notation II. Notation is a“first check” ...

Origins S3-E6: Roland Reynolds, Industry Ventures

On this episode of Origins, we sit down with Roland Reynolds, a managing partner at Industry Ventures. Industry Ventures is a fascinating “full stack venture capital firm.” Their funds invest into...

Origins S3-E2: Andy Weissman — Union Square Ventures

On this episode of Origins, we sit down with Andy Weissman, a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. This was plain and simple one of the best episodes we’ve ever recorded. Andy’s one of the m...

Origins S2-E11: David Frankel — Founder Collective

On this Origins season 2 bonus episode, we sit down with David Frankel, a managing partner and co-founder of Founder Collective. David and the partners at Founder Collective started the firm in 2011 w...

Origins S2-E10: Aaron Gershenberg — SVB Capital

On this final episode of season two of Origins, we sit down with Aaron Gershenberg, a founder of Silicon Valley Bank’s fund of funds and direct investment group, SVB Capital. Aaron joined SVB in 199...

Beezer’s Breakdown – Take II

Last month Harry Stebbings invited me back on The Twenty Minute VC to talk about venture fundraising activity for Q1 2017. We had a great time talking about things like:...

The Importance Of Storytelling, VC EQ And The Importance Of The LP-GP Dating Game

Trey Hart, SVP of 50 South Capital at Northern Trust, joins Nick for a deep dive on the relationship between LPs and GPs. In Part 1, we will address questions including:...

Origins S2-E8: Winter Mead — Sapphire Ventures

Winter Mead is a Vice President at Sapphire Ventures, where he focuses on Sapphire’s fund investments in the United States and internationally. Before joining Sapphire Ventures in 2014, he worked at...

TechCrunch Equity Podcast

Welcome to the second episode of TechCrunch’s newest podcast, Equity, our venture capital-focused show focused on the numbers, people and companies driving the technology industry....

Origins S2-E6: Graham Pingree — Cendana Capital

Graham Pingree joined Cendana Capital in 2014 to return to his roots as a Limited Partner. Combining his past few years in an operating role with his time at Horsely Bridge and Cambridge Associates, h...

Origins S2-E5: Hunter Walk — Partner, Homebrew

This episode was one of the most interesting (and fun) to record so far. As two partners still in the early days of building Notation, it’s extremely helpful to look towards other VCs a little furth...

Origins S2-E4: Lindel Eakman — Managing Director, Foundry Group Next

For those that know the Limited Partner community well, Lindel hardly needs an introduction. He spent thirteen years running the private investments group at the University of Texas (UTIMCO), so he’...

Origins S2-E3: Jonathan Abrams — CEO, Nuzzel + Co-Founder, Founder’s Den

Heyo 2017! We’re starting the year off strong with a new episode of Origins, our podcast dedicated to exploring the Limited Partner community....

Origins S2-E2: Thomas Lenehan — Rockefeller University

We’re really excited to announce a new episode of Origins with Thomas Lenehan, the deputy chief investment officer at Rockefeller University, helping to manage all aspects of the $2 billion endowmen...

Origins S2-E1: Brad Feld — Managing Director, Foundry Group

Welcome to season 2 of Origins! In this season, our goal is to continue to peel back the curtain on the venture capital LP community, a historically opaque corner of the startup ecosystem. The hope is...

Twenty Minute VC Podcast: What LPs Look For In GPs

Beezer Clarkson is Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures where she leads Sapphire’s investments in venture funds domestically and internationally. Prior to joining Sapphire, Beezer managed day-to...

Twenty Minute VC Podcast: Beezer Clarkson, Sapphire Ventures

Yesterday was my second time going on The Twenty Minute VC to share my perspective as a limited partner (LP) in venture. I always love conversations with Harry Stebbings, a good friend who is always f...

Origins: A Podcast About Limited Partners – Ep. 6

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Origins: A Podcast About Limited Partners – Episode 5

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Twenty Minute VC Podcast: What LPs Want In VCs

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What Investors Want From Venture Capital Firms

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Origins: A Podcast About Limited Partners – Episode 2

Today we’re releasing episode #2 of Origins: A Podcast about Limited Partners. We’re thrilled with the reaction to episode #1, particularly given the historical dearth of LP content and other reso...

Origins: A Podcast About Limited Partners – Episode 1

Eighteen months ago, we set out to raise our first fund for Notation Capital. We knew bits and pieces about the Limited Partner community (the firms and people that invest in VC funds), but boy did we...

Twenty Minute VC Podcast: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund

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(Some) LPs Speak Up

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