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LP & GP Voices
Your Fund Size is Your Business Model
By Samir Kaji
Samir Kaji, CEO and Co-Founder of Allocate, breaks down the unique business models of small funds and mega-platforms, highlighting how fund size shapes strategies, risk/return profiles and portfolio construction in venture capital.
Paige Doherty, Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures, explores the "technical storyteller" founder archetype—leaders who combine technical depth with visionary communication to navigate complex landscapes and drive meaningful innovation.
Jeffrey Rinvelt, Partner at Renaissance Venture Capital, shares how Michigan’s fund of funds jumpstarted innovation, how Renaissance evaluates GPs and the role of exit management in driving returns on the latest episode of Superclusters with David Zhou.
Chris Dion, Co-Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner at Brockenbrough, explains what makes small buyout funds resilient, why they outperform larger private equity deals and how the deal leader can matter more than the firm on the 10X Capital Podcast with David Weisburd.
Startup Fundraising in U.S. Metros Top 10 from 2018 - 20240
By Peter Walker
Peter Walker, Head of Insights at Carta, breaks down $560B in venture fundraising from 2018 to 2024, showing Silicon Valley's enduring dominance, NYC's steady second place, and rising ecosystems like LA, San Diego and Austin reshaping the US startup landscape.
Finding Founders Who Will Change the World with Wesley Chan
Hosted by Nick Chirls & Beezer Clarkson
Wesley Chan, co-founder of FPV Ventures and the creator of Google Analytics and Google Voice, joined the Origins podcast to share lessons from working with Sergey Brin, investing in iconic companies like Canva and Plaid, and backing enduring ideas that could shape the world for a century.
Minisode: Building Google and Betting Big: Lessons from Wesley Chan
Hosted by Nick Chirls & Beezer Clarkson
In a bonus minisode, Beezer and Nick go inside their conversation with Wes to unpack his bar for evaluating investments—will the world be able to live without this product in 10 years? Plus, get insights on pivots, QSBS outcomes and how his Google experience shaped his ability to identify greatness.
VC Journal's Women of Influence speak from experience to share career insights and advice, including Sapphire Partners' Beezer Clarkson, who reflects on starting her career in 1994 and needing to first articulate to herself what she wanted to achieve, then give herself the permission and courage to go do it.
VC Returns Have Lagged Behind Stocks. Are Secondary Markets the Solution?
By Steven Rosenbush
Venture-capital firms traditionally have been bit players in the secondary markets, but that is changing as some funds look to boost disappointing liquidity, distributions and returns for investors.
Our Biggest Takeaways from Cerebral Valley: No Wall on AI Progress Despite the Scaling Law Debate
By Madeline Renbarger, Jonathan Weber, and Eric Newcomer
Get a recap from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit, where leaders from Anthropic, Scale AI, Databricks, and more debated the future of GenAI, the potential limits in LLM pre-training and the role of post-training advancements.
How New York Transformed from Tech Backwater into Global Venture Capital
By Leo Schwartz
When Kevin Ryan went out to raise money for DoubleClick in 1996, every California venture capital firm he spoke with told him they would love to invest—if he moved to San Francisco. He couldn’t bring himself to leave New York. Ryan went on to found a string of New York companies—MongoDB, Zola, Gilt and Business Insider—along with his own venture firm.
Launched in 2012, Sapphire Partners is a Limited Partner seeking to invest in elite early-stage venture capital funds, across the U.S., Europe, and Israel.
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