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Associated Podcast: How to Raise a Venture Fund with Leila Zegna
Francesca Baillieu & Tunde Adekeye
Associated Podcast kicked off season 8 with Kindred Capital VC Founding Partner Leila Rastegar Zegna to talk "How to Raise a Venture Fund" with Francesca Baillieu and Tunde Adekeye.
The Twenty Minute VC: Fundraising Lessons with Tomasz Tunguz
Harry Stebbings
Tomasz Tunguz joined The 20 Min VC podcast to share his VC fundraising story as solo GP with Theory Ventures and discussed his 150 LP meetings, 15% close rate, creating urgency in fundraising and $230M closed.
QED's Frank Rotman shares an insightful mental model about the structural wrinkles in the current VC funding progression. His thoughts on non-consensus investments, truth tellers & “first-chapter specialists" marketing to readers who specialize in the middle chapters.
Everyone's talking about the VC pacing slow down, but less so on how this correlates to capital calls. Laura Thompson and Evan Tazian dug into Sapphire Partners' emerging manager data and the findings are eye-opening.
Co-hosts Beezer Clarkson (Partner, Sapphire Partners) and Nicholas Chirls (Partner, Notation Capital) speak with Accolade Partners' Managing Partner Atul Rustgi about how the state of the market has impacted investment decisions: What LPs are looking for, metrics that matter, product market fit and more.
Opportunity Funds Fall From Favor as VCs Go Back to Basics
Marina Temkin
PitchBook News' Marina Temkin spoke with Sapphire Partners' Laura Thompson and AHOY Capital's Chris Douvos for their LP perspectives on opportunity funds in an inopportune time.
What does the VC industry workforce look like in terms of demographics? What is the current state of VC DEI? The VC Human Capital Survey, powered by Deloitte, Venture Forward, and the NVCA, answers these questions for VC firms seeking to expand DEI within both their teams and portfolio companies.
With the shrinking appetite of LPs and many firms likely raising smaller funds, The Information suggests more VC layoffs are coming as resources are taken away to maintain headcount from the bull run.
Early-Stage Fintech Startups Just Got a New Funding Source
Mary Ann Azevedo & Christine Hall
Vesey Ventures was founded by three female former managing directors of Amex Ventures who recently closed a $78 million debut fund. Vesey’s self-described mission is to back companies “transforming financial services” at the seed to Series B stages.
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