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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Aunnie Patton Power writes, “According to the Global Impact Investing Network, 85% of Impact Investors look for market rate or close to market rate returns, but they are cognizant that pushing for a full company exit might have negative impact on the company’s founding mission. 20-30% is a common target IRR for investors.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). ► January. (1).

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A trial balloon: How large corporates can coinvest with their employees’ angel investing

David Teten

Angel investing is an exceptionally high-return asset class; I have collected twelve studies on angel returns in the US and UK, which show median internal rate of return (IRR) between 18 and 38 percent. This matching structure takes advantage of the industry knowledge, proprietary deal flow, and network of senior executives.

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Our New Fund – Foundry Group Next 2018

Feld Thoughts

We are syndication agnostic, being indifferent between investing by ourselves or with co-investors – especially our partner funds – where we mostly have long and successful relationships. We are very long-term investors, focusing on net cash on cash returns, rather than short-term or intermediate IRRs.