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They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limitedpartner. Other coinvestors: Limitedpartners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co. Kevin has written over 620 syndicated columns).
As a VC investing not only personal capital, but on behalf of limitedpartners, one can’t take this strategy. This can include learning more about technologies, markets, and people that may be impactful to the angel’s other endeavors. ” But as an angel one can overweight this factor.
On the other hand, I feel things are a lot more predictable on the fund side—and that getting limitedpartners for your fund or syndicate is a lot more grounded in something that resembles logic. Perhaps you run a widely syndicated startup newsletter where the best companies have been subscribers for years.
She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate.
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I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a LimitedPartner at the GM pension fund. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund.
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