The Benchmark Way: Deep Partnerships and Entrepreneurial Conviction with Victor Lazarte

March 19, 2025

Embracing AI: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Future of Work

March 05, 2025

The Solo GP Playbook: Zal Bilimoria on Fundraising, Portfolio Strategy, and Founder Relationships

February 19, 2025

The Evolution of Venrock: How a Legacy Firm Adapts to Modern Investment Challenges with Brian Ascher

February 05, 2025

Allocate is hiring: Building Hyper-personalization in private market investing

January 30, 2025

Evolving Venture Liquidity Solutions with Gaurav Mathur of Pinegrove Capital Partners

January 22, 2025

Do Emerging Manager Fund of Fund make sense for LPs?

January 21, 2025

What trends are shaping VC right now?

January 18, 2025

Venture Capital in 2025: 11 Predictions I think are happening

January 08, 2025

How should LPs think about VC fund size?

January 02, 2025

The blueprint for starting a new firm with Chemistry Ventures, including the work needed before choosing your partners and non-consensus decision making.

October 30, 2024

Meet the Expert: Venture Fund Banking with Sam Heshmati and Vincent Timoney of Citizens Private Bank

October 16, 2024

Private Market investing is huge but still remains broken.

October 02, 2024

Saga Ventures on key lessons on raising a Fund I, building healthy partnerships, and winning in a competitive seed market

September 26, 2024

Building a firm to last, lessons from nearly three decades of investing, and the path to hiring great venture teams with Glenn Solomon of Notable Capital (FKA GGV Capital)

August 28, 2024

Doing a successful GP led secondary in Venture Capital, Why seed funds can scale, and what a good VC platform team looks like

August 08, 2024

Investing in USV Fund I, lessons learned as a LP, and why Emerging Managers are so important

August 01, 2024

The great startup reckoning event of 2023 and 2024, but why startups should now start going back on offense featuring Tom Loverro of IVP

July 17, 2024

Finding greatness in non-consensus startups, the story of Twitch from Justin.TV, and why great companies need insights and inflection points with Mike Maples

July 10, 2024

TX Zhuo’s of Fika Ventures on raising a Fund I, evolving decision making frameworks, and what founder first means to them

June 27, 2024

What is actually going on in VC today? It's complicated.

June 17, 2024

Limited Partner Unlocked: Michael Kim Cendana Capital on the Emerging Manager landscape, fundraising, and the need for liquidity

June 05, 2024

Amy Saper of Uncork Capital on how startups should embrace constraints to foster creativity, and her learnings from being at Accel, X, Uber, and Stripe

May 15, 2024

New Job Posting Alert: Unlocking private markets with Allocate

April 29, 2024

LP Unlocked shorts: What We're Hearing about Venture Liquidity with Meghan Reynolds of Altimeter

April 19, 2024

What's happening at the seed stage? Featuring Jenny Fielding, Kirby Winfield, and Nate Williams

April 10, 2024

The Craft of Venture Capital with David Sacks

March 27, 2024

Adam Bain of 01 Advisors on scaling Twitter from 0 to $1B+, being coached by Bill Campbell, and why they don't take board seats

March 13, 2024

Mitchell Green of Lead Edge Capital on the Moneyball approach to investing, the art of effective cold calling, and managing 700+ strategic LPs

March 06, 2024

Limited Partner Unlocked shorts: What we're Hearing from LPs with Meghan Reynolds of Altimeter

February 23, 2024

Khosla Venture's Samir Kaul on building an iconic, durable firm, and the role of non-consensus decision making

February 16, 2024

Venture Unlocked Shorts: Looking back the era of Unicorns and what's ahead?

January 31, 2024

Venture Unlocked Shorts: Why VC has gone mainstream and the parallels to private equity and hedge funds

January 26, 2024

The opportunity outside of Silicon Valley and how to build a strategic LP base with Brendan Wales and Kellan Carter of FUSE

January 25, 2024

What do venture LPs and GPs say will happen in 2024?

January 19, 2024

Meet The Expert Series: Matt Trotter of Stifel Bank on the state of the venture debt market, and how investors & startups should approach the credit markets today

January 10, 2024

Pejman Nozad of Pear on building a $800MM+ AUM firm as an immigrant who sold Persian rugs before going into VC

December 22, 2023

Paul Kwan from General Catalyst on the importance of innovation in creating global resilience

December 07, 2023

The Chainsmokers' Alex Pall in crossing over from a grammy nominated group in the music industry to starting Mantis VC

November 29, 2023

Brad Gerstner on AI, Tech Supercycles vs. Market cycles, and the start of Altimeter as a $3MM fund

November 16, 2023

Going back to the foundation of Kleiner Perkins with Mamoon Hamid through clear busines model focus and culture

November 01, 2023

Special LP roundtable: What are LPs thinking about in Venture with Beezer Clarkson, Guy Perelmuter and Chris Douvos

October 25, 2023

Building competitive moats in VC at Lerer Hippeau with Ben Lerer and Graham Brown

October 11, 2023

Building a next-generation tech-enabled Venture Capital firm with Chris Farmer of SignalFire

September 27, 2023

Why Benchmarks are very overrated in venture capital manager selection

September 07, 2023

The art of raising from LPs in an economic downturn with Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures

August 30, 2023

Hernan Kazah of Kaszek Ventures on investing in Latin America, learnings from building a public company, and working with founders

August 16, 2023

Tomasz Tunguz of Theory Ventures on strategically raising a fund in a downturn, Why Firms Need a Business Model, and different views on portfolio construction

July 26, 2023

Demystifying Private markets: Announcing the Allocate substack

July 15, 2023

Sunil Nagaraj of Ubiquity Ventures on the journey of a solo-GP, The Importance of Authenticity, and Navigating Hype Cycles

July 12, 2023

Oren Zeev on scaling to$2B+ in AUM as a solo-GP, contarian investing, and high founder NPS

June 14, 2023

9 common mistakes Limited Partners can easily avoid when investing in venture funds

June 12, 2023

Stephanie Palmeri and Melody Koh of NextView Ventures on incentives within venture partnerships, the changes in seed financing, and operating remotely

June 02, 2023

Scott Kupor, Managing Partner of a16z on Building a lasting Venture Franchise

May 17, 2023

Fundraising best practices for managers, strategic LP management,and LPACs with Meghan Reynolds of Altimeter

April 26, 2023

Satya Patel and Hunter Walk on learnings from building Homebrew, moving to an evergreen model, and launching Screendoor VC to back underrepresented fund managers

April 12, 2023

Portfolio construction trends and best practices with CEO Anubhav Srivastava of Tactyc

April 07, 2023

Dana Settle on starting and building Greycroft, Maintaining culture and speed with scale, and thoughts on VC going forward

March 30, 2023

Shuly Galili of UpWest on building lasting partnerships and how they bridged the gap between Israeli founders and the US Market

March 21, 2023

Ryan Hoover of Weekend Fund and Jordan Gonen of Compound on the rise of private and retail investors into venture capital and alternatives

February 22, 2023

Eddy Chan of Intudo Ventures on building a hyper-local venture strategy for Indonesia

February 02, 2023

Better Tomorrow Ventures, Jake and Sheel on Investing in FinTech, fund construction, and fundraising lessons

January 11, 2023

Jonathan Abrams, 8-Bit Capital: Learnings from founding and running Friendster, Defining "Founder Friendly", going from Angel to full-time VC

December 21, 2022

Gautam Gupta from TCV (Velocity) on the trend of large funds going early, the art of pro-rata investing, and what he is seeing in this market cycle

December 07, 2022

Patrick Chun at Juxtapose: How company creation models and studios work in VC, the squint and wedge framework of investing, and raising from blue-chip institutions

November 30, 2022

Valar Ventures Andrew McCormack on running concentrated portfolios with higher ownership vs. larger portfolios, learnings from working with Peter Thiel, and thoughts on valuations today

November 10, 2022

Mapping out a new partnership, why the RAISE GP/LP summit was such an important effort, and the art of fundraising by Joanna Drake of Magnify Ventures

October 26, 2022

Aydin Senkut of Felicis Ventures on angel to 9 time Midas list investor, inception to scale at Felicis, and winning in today's crowded market

October 05, 2022

Quid's Josh Berman on providing financings against private stock, "trapped liquidity" at funds, and his learnings from co-founding Myspace.

September 28, 2022

Discovering talent before it's obvious, the challenges of being raising a fund I without a traditional pedigree, and startup fund culture with Eric Tarczynski of Contrary

September 21, 2022

Evaluating Crypto today, investing in crypto funds, the role of governance in the space featuring Rabia Iqbal and Jehan Chu of Nural Capital

August 24, 2022

Why emerging managers are a critical part of a well rounded venture portfolio

August 11, 2022

Mark Mullen of Bonfire Ventures on going from a solo capitalist to joining forces with Jim Andelman, the state of seed markets, and his view on what makes fund managers differentiated

August 10, 2022

Ravi Viswanathan of New View Capital on the secondary and growth markets, and raising a unique $1B+ (modified) GP led secondary fund I

August 03, 2022

The art of pre-seed investing, mitigating investment risk at this stage, and building processes to build a true venture platform with a lean team

July 27, 2022

Parade Ventures Shawn Merani on building LP relationships, not focusing on "hot" deals, and his mindset with founders

July 15, 2022

What's happening in growth stage VC?

July 07, 2022

Tusk Venture Partners Jordan Nof: Evolving to an early stage firm, navigating regulatory hurdles for startups, and what the future holds for crypto.

June 30, 2022

FPV's Wes Chan: The path to backing 20 unicorns and 5 decacorns, raising a $450MM Fund 1, working closely with Sergey and Larry and Google, and what Bill Campbell taught him about helping founders

June 22, 2022

Jessica Peltz-Zatulove and Kate Beardsley on closing an oversubscribed $52MM Fund I, the difference between family offices and institutions, secondaries as a foundation of portfolio management

June 01, 2022

The bull market is over… What are the implications for venture capital? ­­­­­­

May 26, 2022

GGV's Jeff Richards on making sense of the market today, growing a $9B+ firm, and whether geo-political tensions may affect international venture investing

May 05, 2022

Introducing Allocate announcing our Series A round!

May 05, 2022

Viola Ventures' Danny Cohen on the Israel's exponential growth as a tech hub, building decision frameworks for picking, and managing a firm in a rapidly changing market

April 20, 2022

776's Alexis Ohanian on the new era of VC, using technology in a firm, and things he's most excited about today.

April 13, 2022

8VC's Drew Oetting on their decision-making culture, building talent at firms, and his most critical learnings as an investor

April 06, 2022

Bedrock Capital's Geoff Lewis on Vibe capital, the power of narrative violations, and winning in today's market

March 31, 2022

David Cohen on founding Techstars, patterns of successful founders, and the math behind large portfolios

March 23, 2022

Playground Global's Peter Barrett on investing in deep tech, what makes a good deep tech founder, and the difference between the improbable and impossible

March 16, 2022

Forerunner Ventures Eurie Kim on scaling the Forerunner franchise, thesis based investing, and advice for emerging managers

March 09, 2022

Not Boring's Packy McCormick on VC's building brand through content creation, tech trends he's most excited about, and how writing has helped him with investing.

March 01, 2022

Limited Partner and direct invest Guy Perelmuter (Grids Capital) on deep tech, bull and bear views on the market, and adding value as a LP

February 22, 2022

Scribble Ventures Elizabeth Weil on the many roles of an emerging venture fund manager, building partnerships, and why network strength is a key differentiator

February 15, 2022

Union Square Ventures' Rebecca Kaden on their theme based investing approach, fund sizing for USV, and navigating hot markets

February 09, 2022

Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on finding the right LPs, the big differences between angel investing and being a solo fund manager, and the main thing she looks for in founding teams

January 25, 2022

QED Investors' Frank Rotman in breaking down the venture market today, determining how to compete today, and how QED makes decisions.

January 18, 2022

Ripple Ventures Matt Cohen on individual VC personal brands, Hedge funds in tech, portfolio math and front weighting in seed, and investing in Canada

January 11, 2022

M13's Carter Reum on building an operational services team (Propulsion platform), navigating from operator to angel investor to building a firm for the long haul.

January 04, 2022

Harbinger Ventures Megan Bent on their concentrated portfolio approach, specific traits they look for in founding teams, and consumer behavior post-pandemic.

December 22, 2021

Boldstart ventures Ed Sim on starting his career during the dot-com bubble, the opportunity as being a true day one investor, and views on today's VC market compared to past eras

December 14, 2021

Lux Capital's co-founder Peter Hebert on the firm's 20 year journey, creating multi-generational success, and the changing dynamics in VC (including their use of SPAC's)

December 07, 2021

Initialized Capital's Alda Leu Dennis on building the proper culture for decision making, finding ways to win in today's market, and her concerns with the drop in diverse founder funding.

November 30, 2021

Kindred Ventures Kanyi Maqubela on large firms entering seed, the challenges of rising valuations, and the nuances of portfolio construction

November 16, 2021

Base10's TJ Nahigian on using automation and research within the firm as a competitive advantage, ways to optimize outcomes in the current investing climate, and thoughts on crossover investing.

November 09, 2021

Glasswing Ventures Rudina Seseri on frontier tech, the KPI's Glasswing uses to measure their value-add to founders, and why diversity is central to their investing ethos

November 02, 2021

Eniac Ventures Hadley Harris on portfolio construction fundamentals, partnership durability, and views on the shifting seed market.

October 26, 2021

LP Roundtable with Chris Douvos (Ahoy Capital), Beezer Clarkson (Sapphire Partners), Guy Perelmuter (GRIDS Capital) on opportunity funds, red flags they watch for, and the state of the market.

October 19, 2021

We are hiring on the investment team at Allocate!

October 18, 2021

Human Ventures' Heather Hartnett on studio models, developing their business creation platform to add value to founders, and their fundraising learnings from raising their first significant fund

October 12, 2021

Global Founders Capital’s Don Stalter on their belief in larger portfolios, managing a global investment firm, and building systems and processes to deliver value at scale.

October 05, 2021

Founders Fund Delian Asparouhov on Miami as a major tech hub, what he thinks as the drivers for innovation now, and the pros of incubating companies like Varda within firms.

September 28, 2021

Banana Capital's Turner Novak on his unconventional path in breaking into VC, being a successful stage agnostic investor, and leveraging social platforms to build advantages

September 21, 2021

Primary Venture Partners Jason Shuman on integrating partners into an established partnership, KPI's on measuring value to founders, and views on portfolio construction.

September 14, 2021

The power of QSBS and federal tax exemptions in early stage fund investing

September 10, 2021

Broadhaven Ventures' Michael Sidgmore on democratization of venture capital, why Alts are the future of private portfolios, and the role of wealth management firms.

September 07, 2021

Act One Ventures Silton and Guerrero on the Diversity Rider initiative, building meaningful partnerships, and operating experience has been key to their model

August 31, 2021

From Norwest to starting Roble Ventures, Sergio Monsalve on equity and diversity in tech, adapting from large VC to a small, solo-GP, and investing in heated markets.

August 24, 2021

Haystack's Semil Shah on building the firm from the ground up, portfolio models, and the state of VC today

August 17, 2021

137 Ventures Justin Fishner-Wolfson on why ownership is an overvalued heuristic, building lasting teams, and the current state of secondary markets.

August 10, 2021

Assessing the world of opportunity funds

August 09, 2021

Jeff Morris, Jr. on finding your own fund/market fit, having like Lightspeed and Sequoia as LPs, and the ever-changing dynamic between entrepreneurs and VCs

August 03, 2021

Miriam Rivera on going from angel to running a firm , driving real change in diversity in tech, and how traditional heuristics should be challenged in VC.

July 27, 2021

Announcing our $5MM round and progress!

July 22, 2021

Ben Casnocha on his learnings from working with Reid Hoffman, building network incentives, and the art of portfolio construction.

July 20, 2021

Lan Xuezhao of Basis Set Ventures on using data science along with human psychology to assess deals, finding LP/GP fit, founder super powers measurement, and conviction based investing.

July 13, 2021

Meet the Expert: Braughm Ricke of Aduro Advisors on working with over 300 Emerging Firms, his time as the first CFO at True Ventures, traits of successful managers

July 08, 2021

Monique Woodard of Cake Ventures on the 3 layers of the Cake that comprise her thesis, what she learned at Lightspeed and 500 startups, fundraising during a pandemic, and diversity in the seed.

July 06, 2021

Shauntel Garvey of Reach Capital on EdTech, raising a sector focused fund, and the importance of being an active seed investor beyond the A round

June 29, 2021

An update on Allocate!

June 24, 2021

Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures on Generational Firm Evolution, Why Fundraising is Like Enterprise Sales, & The State of Venture today

June 22, 2021

Satya Patel of Homebrew on how they were able to raise their first fund in 100 days, creating enduring partnerships, and the art of fund sizing.

June 15, 2021

Jeff Clavier of Uncork Capital on being one of the earliest seed stage VC's, lessons in fundraising during a downturn, and building a multi-generational firm

June 08, 2021

Nnamdi Okike of 645 Ventures on thoughtfully growing funds, data driven sourcing in venture to reduce bias, and building one of the largest BIPOC led venture firms.

May 25, 2021

We are hiring a Venture Associate!

May 20, 2021

Stephen DeBerry of Bronze VC on social impact investing, GP commits, & the next-gen of underrepresented managers

May 19, 2021

Sunil Dhaliwal from Amplify Partners on finding overlooked investment opportunities, deal competition, and the future of venture capital

May 11, 2021

Pete Flint on network effects, VC as a platform, and how they think about fund sizes.

May 04, 2021

Jamie Rhode of Family Office Verdis Investment Management on using decision science to drive fund allocation strategy, their view on large portfolio sizes, and biggest trends they see in VC.

April 26, 2021

Paul Martino from Bullpen Capital on being an early pioneer in post-seed, conviction to back non-consensus startups + another way to think about the SPAC movement

April 20, 2021

Ashmeet Sidana on moving from a partnership with Foundation Capital to being a Solo GP, investing in technical teams, and the upside and downside of data.

April 13, 2021

Katie Jacobs Stanton on moving from angel investing to starting Moxxie, experiences with LP's "ghosting", and why she went the solo GP route

April 06, 2021

Daniel Leff of Waverley Capital on media tech, how he's crafted a successful VC career by being contrarian, and the role of strategic LPs as differentiators

March 30, 2021

Brian Garrett of Crosscut Ventures on building a regionally based seed firm outside of SV, the rise of LA, raising during a recession, and how Crosscut has evolved over the last 13 years.

March 23, 2021

Introducing our new company, Allocate

March 19, 2021

Kelsey Chase of Aumni on using data to become institutional quicker, and what LPs now expect from emerging managers - Venture Unlocked 027

March 18, 2021

Clara Brenner of Urban Innovation Fund - Venture Unlocked 026

March 16, 2021

Lindsay Lee of Authentic Ventures on operationalizing networks & creating an edge through diversity rich networks- Venture Unlocked 025

March 09, 2021

Venture Unlocked 024: Ryan Hoover of Weekend Fund on collaborative based investing, building founder NPS, and considerations around scaling funds.

March 02, 2021

Venture Unlocked 023: Renata Quintini & Roseanne Wincek of Renegade Partners on the Supercritical Stage and running a fund like a startup

February 23, 2021

Venture Unlocked 022: Welly Sculley & Winter Mead of Oper8r on building the “YC for fund managers” and tips for launching a firm.

February 16, 2021

Venture Unlocked 021: Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Partners on the #OpenLP effort, How to Pitch LP’s, & what she sees in the venture ecosystem

February 09, 2021

New beginnings

February 03, 2021

Venture Unlocked 020: Mac Conwell of RareBreed Ventures & Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta on the state of Emerging VC

February 02, 2021

Venture Unlocked Episode 019: Mike Maples on Floodgate's investing models, how he thinks about exceptional companies, and building a lasting firm.

January 26, 2021

Venture Unlocked Episode 018: Apurva Mehta on discovering the next-gen of top venture investors

January 19, 2021

Venture Unlocked Episode 017 - Jaclyn Freeman Hester on investing in emerging manager funds, venture trends, and mistakes fund managers can avoid when raising.

January 12, 2021

Venture Unlocked ep 16 - Avidan Ross of Root VC on investing in deep tech, taking an heavy approach on reserves, and building LP relationships.

January 05, 2021

Venture Unlocked ep 15 - Marlon Nichols from MaC Ventures on VC firm mergers, funding diversity, and his relationship with LP's.

December 29, 2020

Venture Unlocked ep 14 - Deena Shakir from Lux Capital speaks about firm culture, solving the diversity issue, and how portfolio management is a team sport.

December 22, 2020

Who are the LPs that are investing in underrepresented led VC managers?

December 20, 2020

Venture Unlocked ep 13 - Ahoy Capital's Chris Douvos on the art of investing in Emerging VC funds

December 15, 2020

Venture Unlocked ep. 12 - UNION Labs' Nate Williams on the studio model & investing in deep tech

December 10, 2020

Venture Unlocked ep. 11 - TMV Soraya Darabi on building and scaling a seed stage firm

December 08, 2020

Venture Unlocked ep. 10 - Costanoa Ventures Greg Sands on building a boutique Venture Firm, firm culture, and portfolio theory.

December 01, 2020

Venture Unlocked 009 - Fifth Wall's Brendan Wallace on building a different type of venture firm

November 24, 2020