#OpenLP Sept 2020 -- Fundraising, rolling funds, and LP strategies

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. Unfortunately, rather than being a temporary fix, it looks like AGMs will be held virtually for the foreseeable future. Given this shift, I wanted to update our recommendations in advance of the Fall (now virtual) annual meeting season...

How to Raise a Venture Fund

While the “front” or entrepreneur-facing side of the venture industry has been demystified over the last 10 years, the back-end of the business, or how venture firms emerge and raise funds from limited partners (“LPs”), remains opaque.

Kate Shillo Beardsley talks about future of venture capital investing in new economy

Kate is the Founding Partner of Hannah Grey investing at the intersection of human behavior and technology in the new economy. She was previously at Upslope Ventures and was a Founding Member of Lerer Hippeau (Funds I, II & III) in NYC, investing in 200+ companies. Kate is Co-Chair of The Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association and is based in Denver, Colorado.

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How Emerging Venture Capital Fund Managers Should Think About Their LP Fundraising Strategies

For many emerging VC managers, fundraising from LPs seems like an obscure procedure that is difficult to comprehend and hard to do right. I think it becomes much clearer if you look at fundraising as a typical B2B sales process, viewing the fund that you try to pitch as the financial product that you want to sell.

20VC: SAHIL LAVINGIA ON ROLLING FUNDS AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE FUTURE OF VENTURE

Sahil Lavingia is the Founder and CEO @ Gumroad, the company that helps creators do more of what they love. However, most recently Sahil has made waves launching one of the first rolling funds on AngelList with his being $6M per year. In the past, Sahil has backed the likes of Lambda School, Figma, HelloSign and Haus to name a few.

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How to raise your first VC fund

Having seen successful returns as a fund manager and an early-stage VC (as well as recently raising my own angel fund), I’ve formulated several best practices and strategies for investing in fund managers. If you want to raise your first fund, here’s how.

Will Rolling Funds Roll Over the Venture Capital Industry?

In the world of venture capital, the big news of the past two weeks has been AngelList’s “Rolling Venture Funds.” More than 15 funds have publicly launched on the platform since February, including those led by...

Surging: The 2020 Venture-Backed IPO

In late March, headlines mourned a once-robust 2020 IPO environment amid plummeting public equity market woes. Four months into the pandemic, equity indices are making a recovery despite continued macroeconomic headwinds, largely powered by the technology sector. Notably, the Nasdaq, which is heavily allocated to venture-backed industries such as technology and healthcare, has...

The use of placement agents for Emerging fund managers

For emerging managers, the actual capital raise of a fund represents the most significant friction point for getting off the ground (and early on, scaling a firm). This issue has prevented many aspiring investors from starting firms, and has led to the advent of models such as the AngelList Rolling Fund product.

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 how COVID-19 has changed family office outlook.