This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Fund investing, like adulting, is boring. That’s the first thing anyone trying to raise a fund needs to understand, as well as anyone thinking about investing in one. The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. So what’s the point?

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

That believe has not only translated into the most diverse portfolio run by an investor who looks like me, with over 50% of the teams including diverse founders, but also into top quartile returns in our last fund. I generally accept any invite to speak or answer questions in front of a public group that I get.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

but in a moment of clarity, I realized that everything I get--dealflow, fund investors, opportunities to hire people, etc.--comes Is it no accident, then, that one of the founding fathers of venture capital, Don Valentine of Sequoia, also came from Fordham? Maybe a key to being in venture is a desire to help others?

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Venture capital and private equity firms meanwhile, will increasingly elect to move their portfolio companies to exits due to funding needs, pressure to return capital and improving business fundamentals.

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MAY 16, 2024

That means a lot of competition for the best deals and more difficulty in standing out. If we ever do get to the one-person unicorn, that’s going to be a lot of people trying to beat out Sequoia and Benchmark to fund its solitary round—a $2mm seed that it never looks back from for additional capital. Data wasn’t a sector.

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SuperAngel.Fund

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Click here to read the recap 📝 Since the fund started in January 2021 we have deployed $8.1m In addition to the fund which is my primary vehicle, Super Angel Syndicate provides an opportunity for investors to contribute more, from time to time, into individual companies via special purpose vehicles (SPVs).

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Here are a few key things I’ve learned: While VCs work with entrepreneurs, they often need reminders to be entrepreneurial themselves—to strive to take on new projects that create community (and exclusive deal flow), teach them something new, or help them stand out.

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SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 19, 2024

Click here to read the recap 📝 Since the fund started in January 2021 we have deployed $8.6m In addition to the fund, Super Angel Syndicate provides an opportunity to contribute more, from time to time, into individual companies via special purpose vehicles (SPVs). across 159 investments into 107 companies. gross multiple.

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SuperAngel.Fund

APRIL 21, 2023

Read the Q1 2023 Recap here 📝 Since the fund started in January 2021, we have deployed $6.9 On March 14th, AngelList’s CEO also sent a formal update to managers regarding their new banking process for funds, GPs and LPs, which they are calling Networked Banking. million across 119 investments into 91 companies.

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SuperAngel.Fund

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Read the Q3 2022 Recap here 📝 Since the fund started in January 2021, we’ve made 99 total investments into 66 companies, 27 of which have been marked up so far. PS - My next quarterly fund started on October 1. The first is written by another venture fund that we collaborate with. Click here to apply.

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SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 6, 2023

That said, these figures do not yet incorporate deals closed in Q4 2022, which, I believe will show a much more substantial decline in valuations for pre-seed and seed rounds than the preceding quarters of the year. Impact For Our Fund I believe the trends above will continue over the next 12-24 months. gross multiple.

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Insight Partners

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Financing led by RA Capital Management with participation from Insight Partners, NVentures, Catalio Capital Management, Eli Lilly and Company, Gaingels, and Cooley LLP Funds to support clinical development of lead programs and expansion of small molecule pipeline focused on high-value GPCR targets BOSTON, Sept.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

But is that also true for start-ups and venture-funded private companies? As it turns out, it depends on where you look… Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest : Soraya Darabi, partner in the venture firm TMV. That founder happens to be an LP in our fund. As it turns out, it depends where you look.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Venture capital is basically the complete opposite. Since I started coaching investors , especially non-partners and partners at emerging funds, I’ve been asked the same questions in all sorts of ways: “What things should I be doing to be great?” Actually, it’s even worse than that. When you measure skews the analysis.

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Udu

APRIL 21, 2023

Inbound Platforms Inbound platforms specialize in helping firms source deals from a variety of sources, including venture capital firms, angel investors, and other private equity funds. Ideally, the platform will offer a diverse set of investment opportunities across different sectors, geographies, and deal sizes.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

2020: Black Swan Moment Coronavirus, the black swan of 2020, had a significant impact on the private equity industry, causing uncertainty and volatility in financial markets, disrupting deal-making, and affecting portfolio companies across various sectors.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth. There’s pent-up demand.

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Axial

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Technology ranked 4th in deal flow but had the highest average pursuit rate, 8.76%, of all sectors. See below for the full Q3 deal activity overview on the Axial platform, and for a more detailed breakdown by industry, check out The SMB M&A Pipeline: Q3 2023. .”

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

A month ago, Eliyahu Kamisher of the Los Angels Times reported that CalPERS pension fund posts 5.8% gain in its latest fiscal year as the stock market rally and private debt buoyed the largest traditional public pension fund in the United States. pension fund, has yet to release its fiscal 2023 results.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In areas where VC money is plentiful and there are lots of VCs tripping over each other to fund deals — tthink San Francisco, Boston, New York — in other parts of the country where there are fewer VCs, there are enormous market inefficiencies. That founder happens to be an LP in our fund.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

The pension fund’s total net assets stood at $249.8 Chief investment officer Ziad Hindo says the fund saw positive returns across multiple asset classes including public and private equities, infrastructure, and credit over the first six months of the year. The growth came as the fund earned a 12-month total-fund net return of 4.8

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

At one point in time, Jack Bogle, founder of, of Vanguard was chairman of their mutual funds. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. Everybody knows what a hedge fund is, but let’s talk about liquid alts.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

So the theory was that’s great that you’re providing a loan, but if you can co-invest with them and get the upside of partnering with some of the most successful private equity funds in the United States, you know, a great way to enhance your returns. They’re not held by one fund. What do I mean by that?

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SuperAngel.Fund

JULY 14, 2023

Last week, as I have done for the past ten quarters , I sent the limited partners (LPs) in my fund a quarterly update. Similarly, for General Partners (GPs) like me who manage venture capital funds, we are no different and I believe in practicing what you preach. Click here to view a detailed performance summary.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Indias private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) sectors are positioning themselves for a surge in dealmaking activity as subdued stock market conditions push businesses away from IPOs and towards private funding, according to a report by Reuters.

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JUNE 1, 2020

A little over seven years ago, I set out to start a fund that looks to be an early and vocal supporter of those who are outside the innermost circles of the most powerful people in tech--since, by definition, New York City was beyond that circle. Venture capital is supposed to make a high multiple of return for the risk.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

He rolls that cash into his next venture, which becomes a wildly successful angel fund, which now is in its fourth edition. So indirectly, I became a hedge fund manager to manage our cash at the Squeeze Ball Company. I’m a comedy kid and I’m like haphazard VC, not haphazard hedge fund, like my haphazard VC.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

Ralph Berg, chief investment officer at OMERS for nearly two years, brings a fresh perspective to pension fund management with a history and work pedigree different to what you might expect from a Canadian fund investment boss. billion) funds approach to investing. The fund has been invested in infrastructure for 18 years.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

No, we always had, and we do have at Oak HCFT one Fund that everything, and, and we would choose the allocation, 00:06:57 [Speaker Changed] Huh. It sounds like you’re describing something much more comprehensive and holistic than the venture of old servicing the entrepreneur. And so it was more PC hardware, telecom related.

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