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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

In turn, some funds have a more friendly posture towards us and try to structure deals that incentive syndicate investors in a way that doesn’t massively disadvantage the seed investors. We help surface seed companies to them and typically don’t compete against them for new rounds or for follow-on dollars.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

What’s a “fair” split of fee income and carried interest when a partner joins several years/funds after others? For example carried interest takes years to accrue and is based on the efforts and decisions of both the individual and the firm that happened 5-10 years ago. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Pari Passu or F.U.little guy

Professor VC

Another area where I''m not sure I stand is with some of the more formal referral and syndication programs that are emerging now. Funders Club ( which I''ve written about previously ) recently launched a referral program where angels can receive 10% of the carried interest in a deal they refer that ultimately gets investment from an FC fund.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account. offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005.

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Why Investor Titles are Important

This is going to be BIG.

I would propose that we call these types of investors “syndicate investors”—super useful folks who join with others to help rounds get raised on various crowd investing platforms. Partners, in my mind, should have carried interest (upside) in the fund and be able to lead deals and take board seats.