This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 20, 2024
On the other hand, I feel things are a lot more predictable on the fund side—and that getting limited partners 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.
David Teten
JULY 12, 2017
GPs strategically invite trusted [Limited Partners and others] to co-invest, often based on the LP’s ability to add value or when the amount of capital required to complete an attractive transaction is larger than they are able to invest alone.”. 2) Investors with very specific value-add. Economic benefit. Market Insight.
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David Teten
JANUARY 11, 2020
They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Kevin has written over 620 syndicated columns).
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 5, 2023
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 Limited Partner at the GM pension fund. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
A more efficient approach is to mine the data exhaust from the Limited Partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
A more efficient approach to fundraising than haphazard networking is to mine the data exhaust from the limited partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate.
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