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🤔 Did you know that 20 of 21 startup liquidity events are acquisitions, not IPOs? Cal Fund doesn't believe unicorn status is the only way for a startup to be successful . 📈 Cal Fund GP, Kurt Beyer, shares his wisdom with Haas MBAs John Russo and Jake Hart in an interview exploring Cal Fund’s perspectives on startup exits. Stay tuned for more insights from this convo! #CalFundInsights #StartupWisdom #FounderEngagement

I am excited to share with all our entrepreneurs, partners and friends that today Telstra Ventures starts a new chapter in our journey, changing our name to Titanium Ventures 🚨 We chose Titanium Ventures because it best represents who we are, who we want to be and the founders we back - strong, resilient people, who resist cracking under pressure, building enduring companies. Titanium has the highest durability and strength-to-weight ratio of any metal in the world and like the leaders we invest in, we punch way above our weight. Our investment thesis remains the same and we will continue to identify and scale the most promising companies across a variety of AI, digital and software sectors. So far we’ve invested in 99 portfolio companies, resulting in: 🚀 12 IPOs 🚀 17 unicorns 🚀 42 liquidity events Today we have almost US$1B funds under management and have returned US$678M cash to investors. This is an exciting next chapter in our story. Titanium Ventures will continue to accelerate the extraordinary, fueling the growth of standout disruptors, that’s what we have done for over a decade and that’s what our investors and founders expect us to do in the decades to come. #titaniumventures #vc #venturecapital #vcgrowth

In The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers, there’s an epic quote that's apt for our current moment in VC: During the Battle of Isengard, Treebeard, the leader of the Ents, giant tree-like creatures that are fighting Saruman's Orcs, gives the order to: “Break the dam! Release the river!” In venture capital, the dam of deal buildup is finally breaking. But the liquidity is increasingly coming from the secondary markets, as traditional sources like IPOs and M&A are not as free-flowing as they once were. Secondary deal volume is expected to set a new record in 2024. Already during the first half of this year, GP-led secondary deal value reached $28B, up 56% from H1 2023. At Kyber Knight Capital, we know our lane. We are early-stage investors, not growth-stage experts. To ensure early liquidity for our LPs, we consistently sell a portion of our initial stakes to incoming growth round investors during follow-on financing rounds. Until the battle cries return to break the IPO and M&A dams, secondaries help provide the flowing sources of liquidity LPs need. #SecondarySales #SecondaryMarkets #Secondaries #SiliconValley #VentureCapital #Startups 

Prediction: with the emergence of the AI-enabled founder building & scaling startups with less capital, IPOs will also migrate towards the Series A line, opening up a window of opportunity for insane returns for founders (& VCs).

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Two pieces of advice for new VCs. From Marie Brayer, Partner at Fly Ventures. 1/ Know your differentiator. Everybody is smart in the VC space. So, if you are not doing something different. You're not better. 2/ The return on investment of side projects is immense. Go build a side project. Here's the current one I have. It's called buff.ly/4a6QXVW What else would you add? Join the conversation in the comments. 🔽 #venturecapital #angelinvesting #startupfunding #europe

Despite current challenges in VC fundraising and a slowdown in startup dealmaking, there are positive aspects to consider. One of them is that VCs are increasingly focused on supporting existing portfolio companies towards successful exits. https://lnkd.in/eSNnbvU4

As 2024 shapes up to be a strong year for private equity investments, many startups are seeking to be acquired. If your company is positioning itself for an acquisition, here are a few tips to get ready: https://bit.ly/4cJjd2C...

We are wrapping up our first round of projects and beginning compliance on our next round. If you have a CRE Construction, Acquisition or Refinance, $10M to $1B or more, and you want something far better than Conventional or Hard Money financing you are going to want to learn more about our program. By the way, we use this same strategy to raise Capital for business acquisitions and startups. #NonRecourse #Monetization #alternativefinance #multifamilyinvesting #CREfinance #startupfinancing #acquistionfinancing