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What to Expect When You're Expecting Venture Capital Returns

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Just about every analyst who looks at fund investing has built one. You incorporate expected company returns, mortality rates, and fee structures to try to predict how a venture capital fund works from a cash in, cash out, and NAV standpoint. It's also not the "average fund". It's about building the exceptions.

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Pension funds are still punching below their weight in European VC

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European pension funds are committing a "miniscule" amount of their vast capital to VC funds in the region, continuing their historical trend of punching below their weight, new research from Atomico shows.

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The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round

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I was working for the GM pension fund, an institutional LP, as an analyst, doing a research project on consumer private equity and venture capital investing. I was researching consumer focused funds, building and fixing brands, and talking to just about every consumer minded investor I could find.

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New Forests raises €410m for sustainable forestry fund backed by European investors

Private Equity Insights

New Forests, a global sustainable investment manager, has raised 410m in the first close of its latest fund, focused on climate and forestry initiatives. The fund, supported by European investors such as pension funds, insurers, and family offices, aims to reach a final target of 600m.

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

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It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund.

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New Mexico’s $44bn pension fund unveils latest VC, credit fund commitments

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New Mexico State Investment Council, a $44bn-managing pension fund investor, has picked private credit and a string of venture capital vehicles in its latest suite of fund commitments.

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The Trouble with Venture Capital Data

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There aren't many people who get the chance to analyze venture capital fund return data. You'd have to work for a very limited number of fund performance tracking firms, like Thomson Reuters, Cambridge, etc., or be an institution big enough to see a ton of different funds over time. What is this?