Emerging manager? Think Venture5.
Venture5 Catalyst provides products, programming, and promotion for emerging managers.
Our mission: Support 100+ new firms representing $1B+ AUM over the next decade
We help emerging managers by
- Highlighting their firms to the 50,000+ founders, VCs, operators, and allocators we reach every month
- Plugging them into our community of GPs and LPs through IRL and virtual events like our “Moves in VC” dinner series, V5 Summit, and Emerging Manager Spotlight series
- Leveraging the personal networks we’ve developed across 20+ years in the venture ecosystem
The opportunity
Emerging managers go early, go weird, and go overlooked — and we believe have the most potential to deliver outsized returns over the long run.
Our approach
Accountability
We share in the risk and in the upside of the emerging managers we support.
Community
Our events and bespoke introductions provide the opportunity for GPs and LPs to develop deep relationships.
Visibility
We highlight your firm to our audience of 50,000+ founders, funders, operators, and allocators.
Flexibility
We adjust our approach based on your needs as an emerging manager or as an LP looking to invest in emerging managers.
Emerging Manager Spotlight Series
Our flagship virtual event series, giving emerging managers and the LPs who back them the opportunity to share knowledge and best practices with the ecosystem. Prior panelists have included GPs and investors from top VC funds and allocators including Foundation Capital, Next Legacy Partners, and Precursor Ventures.
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Our Syndicate Program
We launch, operate, and support syndicates across verticals and communities, including:
- Creator Science Syndicate — Investing in the best companies in the creator economy
- GoingVC Partners — The investing arm of GoingVC, the leading venture capital career development program
Visibility and distribution for GPs
Distribute your firm’s wins, announcements, and content across our network of 50,000+ founders, funders, allocators, and operators.
Amplification
We’ll highlight your portfolio company fundings, firm social media posts, promotions and hires, and more.
Access
Priority invitations to ‘Moves in VC’ dinners and other events focused on emerging manager GPs and LPs.
Analytics
Get insights about who is engaging with your firm’s content and announcements across our media platform.
Selected Fund & Startup Investments
(Founder personal investment)
Pre-seed fund investing in B2B SaaS startups
(Founder personal investment)
Early-growth fund for AI-powered B2B SaaS
(Founder personal investment)
Pre-seed/seed fund for data- and AI-driven tech startups
(Founder personal investment)
Early-stage fund for fintech, insurtech & commerce infrastructure
Syndicate with focus on seed/pre-Series A rounds in cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, and devtools
(Creator Science Syndicate)
Tax-optimized investing platform for business owners and high-income professionals
(Creator Science Syndicate)
Personalized marketing platform for creators
(Creator Science Syndicate)
Email marketing SaaS for creators
(Founder personal investment)
AI dev tool that captures and organizes coding-prompt intent
(Founder personal investment)
Community-as-a-Service platform for niche professional communities
(Portco acquired by Job.com)
AI-driven end-to-end hiring platform
FAQs
All of the things that you see on the page we’ve been doing across the span of many years. But we never really tied it together into a cohesive story and communicated that story to the venture ecosystem. The hope is that by launching Venture5 Catalyst, we’ll be able to reach even more emerging managers and the LPs who back them.
No. However, our founder invests personal capital into firms, funds, via syndicates, and into startups. You can see specific examples of this elsewhere on the page. If we launch a fund in the future, we’ll announce it through our newsletters. To make sure you’re the first to hear about it you can subscribe to any of them by going to this page.
Venture5 Media is our content platform that reaches 50,000+ founders, operators, VCs, and allocators monthly, creating visibility for emerging managers across those audiences. Venture5 Catalyst leverages this media reach alongside our community events and personal networks to provide support for emerging managers at every stage of their journey.
A syndicate is a group of investors that pool their capital together to invest in a company or venture fund that the syndicate ‘leads’ select. When you join a syndicate, you’ll be invited to deals that you can choose to invest in on a deal-by-deal basis. If you’d like more details about how syndicates work generally, the team at GoingVC wrote an excellent overview post about syndicates which is linked here.
We do not make investment recommendations as everyone’s situation is different. You should consult your legal, financial, accounting, and other advisors before making any investments, in any asset class. Additionally, venture capital investments are highly illiquid with high potential for losses, including complete loss of your investment. Tread carefully!
