Category: Venture Capital
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Africa’s VC Landscape (CNBC Africa)
8th Season Capital founding partner spoke to CNBC Africa’s Power Lunch on Friday 11th November 2022 and provided high level insights into Africa’s growing Venture Capital (VC) landscape. Some notable points included: Access the full interview HERE: https://www.cnbcafrica.com/media/6315384289112/
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SAVCA 2022 VC Survey
Access the South African 2022 Venture Capital Industry Survey (covering activity during 2021) conducted by SAVCA (The Southern African Venture Capital & Private Equity Association) “The numbers in this report reiterate the fact that the VC industry is growing year- on-year, with more early-stage businesses receiving funding and strategic guidance from VC fund managers. Although…
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Is VC a Risky Asset Class?
The Pervasive, Head-Scratching, Risk-Exploding Problem With Venture Capital Source: https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1nlj1gb3g3bbd/The-Pervasive-Head-Scratching-Risk-Exploding-Problem-With-Venture-Capital Three VC experts run the numbers and conclude: Everyone’s doing it wrong. By Kamal Hassan, Monisha Varadan& Claudia Zeisberger (September 29, 2020) Venture capital demands from investors a significant risk appetite — or at least that is the perception. Academic research into VC funds since the 1980s has shown evidence to…
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3 Keys to Building a Successful VC Firm
Article sourced from Kauffman Fellows and originally published on 30 July 2021 (Source: https://www.kauffmanfellows.org/journal_posts/3-keys-to-building-a-successful-vc-firm) This week we’re chatting with Alan Feld, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Vintage Investment Partners, a leading Israel-based venture fund of funds, secondary fund, and late-stage co-investment firm. Feld pulls back the curtain, sharing three key principles that guided him as he founded…
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What is a Fund of Funds?
Source: https://learn.angellist.com/articles/fund-of-funds A venture fund of funds is a fund that invests in other venture funds. Investing in a fund of funds offers portfolio diversification. VC funds of funds invest in other venture capital funds (although they also sometimes invest directly in startups via co-investments). Funds of funds provide investors greater portfolio diversification and access…
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Why emerging managers are a critical part of a well rounded venture portfolio
Article by Samir Kaji Aug 11 2022 Source (https://ventureunlocked.substack.com/p/why-emerging-managers-are-a-critical) A critical characteristic of healthy asset categories is the flow of new entrants. New entrants bring new ideas, models, and necessary competition. In the mid-2000s, advances in technology infrastructure made it possible for software development to happen inexpensively, and software companies started to address problems across…
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What LPs Want
Article sourced from Raise Global (https://www.raiseglobal.co/post/taking-the-pulse-of-the-lp-community) Taking the Pulse of the LP Community In May, Raise held the second annual RAISE LP-Only Summit with over 200 U.S LPs in their community. During the meeting, they polled their attendees about their preferences, concerns and general sentiment during this rocky time in VC. Two themes that emerged…
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Africa Funding for Startups Surges During H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-03/africa-defies-global-trend-with-funding-for-startups-surging Africa Defies Global Trend With Funding for Startups Surging Companies more than doubled funding in the first-half All other regions have shown declines; Latin America fell 43% By – Antony Sguazzin, Samuel Gebre and Rene Vollgraaff 3 August 2022 at 08:32 GMT+2 As funding for startups falls across the globe, Africa is standing out…
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Funding raised by startups in Africa since 2019 (in the 4 key markets)
Article by Max Cuvellier (www. thebigdeal.substack.com)21 May 2022 A more granular view of the performance of the ecosystem since 2019 Looking at funding raised from a calendar year point of view (between Jan and Dec) is both convenient and intuitive… but it feels a bit unfair sometimes, in particular because the deals announced at the…
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Advantages & Disadvantages of VC
What is Venture Capital? Venture capital is a common way for promising startup companies to gain the finances they need to grow. Venture capital financing involves venture capitalists, who are often part of a venture capital firm, investing in a startup company. When venture capitalists invest in a start-up company, they are making a risky…
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