Haystack

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

For any investor raising their own funds, you may have to chase down capital calls for each investment. For any startup selling an annual license, the deal may not get signed right away. Payment may be delayed. People will say one thing, and then do another, or drag their feet. That is what happens to everyone. It is not fair.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

While the M&A story has been widely reported perhaps far fewer people know that Limited Partners (LPs), the people who fund VC firms, have finally been able to restock their coffers in the past 4 years with significantly more money coming to them in distributions than capital calls to fund VC firm investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

We envy them all and want to emulate them but know that they are just people dealing with struggles of a different magnitude from the pressures of going public, the pressures of pricing competition, the pressures of over-reaching of journalists and regulators and the pressures of activist public shareholders with short-term expectations.

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View from Seed

MARCH 12, 2015

For example, when an entrepreneur asks about capital calls, what they really care about is, “Are you guys still actively making new investments at present?” If that’s what you want to know, just ask that.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Doing better than average requires what Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital called ‘different and better’ thinking in a recent memo to his investors. Being an average investor in startups is therefore a waste of time. It’s actually a surefire recipe for losing money.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

While it’s true that they are investing LP money from a fund, it’s also true that the VCs are required to write large checks into their funds so every time they do a “capital call” (request money from an LP to fund you) they are also having to wire their own money into the deal. VCs most certainly do have skin in the game.

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ithacaVC

MAY 10, 2011

And it literally has to pay in $$ when VC1 makes a capital call. Now, there are interesting ways for the GP to fulfill its portion of a capital call using “fee waiver”, but I am not going to address that here. It literally has an investment share in the fund just like any other limited partner.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 9, 2008

PrivateEquityOnline: Bankrupt WaMu Parent Defaults on Capital Call. The commitments to venture capital are therefore now a much higher percentage of their total portfolio than they originally started with. Deferred/Unmet Capital Calls : Portfolios have taken a beating in this market. NY Times Bits: I.P.O.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 19, 2010

This is the last in our series of 10 frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: I’ve read that some GPs are suing LPs for not making capital calls. Why throw more money their way?

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 10, 2012

. - If one considers NEA a Silicon Valley firm (I know they are headquartered in Baltimore but they have a very large and successful west coast practice), the top five funds raised are in San Francisco and represented 55% of the capital raised. The average size of fund raised in 3Q12 was $94M, although the median was $160M.

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 25, 2009

LPs missing capital calls (a very big deal). But there’s some early evidence things are breaking up: Venture firms cutting back on partners, or moving some partners to “venture” partners.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 16, 2010

The way venture funds work is that a collection of limited partners commit to a total amount of capital that is to be managed by the venture fund, the managing and general partners in the arrangement, for which the fund is compensated with an annual management fee. It’s the nuclear scenario.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 19, 2012

And, finally, finally, finally, we saw overwhelming bipartisan support from the House of Representatives in support of a bill that will help small businesses raise capital, called the JOBS Act, which passed 390-23 last week and is now being debated in the Senate.

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Babbling VC

JANUARY 7, 2011

Therefore, it's an illusion to think that you can get by raising far less nowadays if you want to deliver the necessary returns venture capital calls for. . Even Dropbox and Etsy have done far larger rounds to finance their growth. What does this all boil down to? Well, it's a matter of talent.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 17, 2010

Answer: The options here are limited, and they are (1) the LP can try to sell their interest, including the obligation to fund future capital calls, to a fund that acquires secondary interests. The good news is that a robust market exists for such interests in venture capital partnerships today; or (2) default.

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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

As everyone knows, what is being reported as dry powder isn’t real as many of those LP commitments would not survive a capital call (and thus capital calls aren’t being made). . “dry powder&# ) and $1.5 trillion of unrealized returns. Also, the $1.5

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 9, 2008

GigaOm reports that Sequoia Capital called an all-hands, emergency meeting with its portfolio CEOs to walk through a recommended plan of action. My partner, David Aronoff, wrote a good blog outlining what CEOs should be doing to ensure survival.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

However, as we soon discovered, many of these firms were forced to hoard capital for existing portfolio companies and focus most of their time and energy on deciding which ones deserved these reserves. Some were also dealing with issues of limited partners struggles with capital calls and asset allocations.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Rarely is there any formal written agreement memorializing these initial expectations and stating the consequences of non-performance or inability to make capital calls when required.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 27, 2012

Call it democratization of the fund raising market, call it free enterprise, call it access to capital, call it what you will, but it is a trend. Really, this means that average people now have the freedom to invest in what they wish.

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