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List of Partners vendors. Your Money. Personal Finance. Your Practice. Popular Courses. What are Venture Capital Funds? Key Takeaways Venture capital funds manage pooled investments in high-growth opportunities in startups and other early-stage firms.
Hedge funds target high-growth firms that are also quite risky. As a result, these are only available to sophisticated investors that can handle losses, along with illiquidity and long investment horizons Venture capital funds are used as seed money or "venture capital" by new firms seeking accelerated growth, often in high-tech or emerging industries. Investors in a VC fund will earn a return when a portfolio company exits, either through an IPO, merger, or acquisition.
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Staying on top of the early stage investing world requires a lot of reading. In the course of a single day, Christopher and I scan dozens of articles, newsletters, blog posts, and the occasional book chapter or industry podcast. We also read three or four newsletters which focus on activities within the venture community. One of the biggest trends we witnessed over the past few years is the rapid pace of new early stage venture fund formation combined with significant growth in the amount of capital invested.
A decade or two ago, most of the new funds were traditional VC funds located in technology hubs in the US and a few other countries around the globe. These days, funds are popping up almost everywhere. Growth in venture investing has more than doubled in the US over the past decade as shown in the chart below. If you add statistics from the rest of the world to this data, the growth is even more dramatic. In addition to traditional VC funds, there is significant growth from new types of investors focused on Corporate, Government, University and Social Impact goals.
Corporate investors, in particular, are having a major impact on the investment community. Others attribute this to a desire to allow more innovation to flourish indirectly despite the more mature conservative corporate culture by owning minority investments in nimble start ups.
And still others attribute it to a desire to have an inside track on acquiring attractive start-ups before they raise a ton of venture capital and have their required acquisition price go through the roof.
Get Seraf Compass articles weekly ». In addition, angel investing is reaching new heights in terms of deals and investment dollars. Angel investments are coming from multiple sources, including groups of angels working together in networks both formal and informal, networks of angels coming together into syndicates, angel funds, family offices, and syndication platforms such as AngelList, etc.
Just in the past 8 years, total US-based angel investments per year have grown close to 4X. And the numbers shown in the chart below represent just the data that Pitchbook was able to gather. We have seen data from other sources that support activity levels more than twice that shown in this chart. So what does all this mean? Why should you care? Well, if you are interested in raising a new fund, there appears to be a lot of capital available to invest into early stage companies.
And as even better news, this is a very difficult and time-intensive asset class. Direct investment in smaller deals in early companies are so much work compared to other kinds of investment opportunities available to them. And the failure rate is high, so diversification into a relatively large number of deals is essential. However, for reasons of asset allocation and the desire to chase higher returns, those with significant assets to invest are highly motivated to find a way to participate in the tremendous upside potential offered by this asset class.
So committing their money to an early stage venture fund actively managed by experts becomes an attractive option to them at least in theory. But how do you go about convincing these prospective investors to trust you with their hard earned capital? Christopher is both a Limited Partner in several venture funds and a General Partner in a couple of seed funds. He has sat on both sides of the fund raising table.
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