“Trust is everything.” I just wrapped our latest virtual event. This one was totally different than any we’ve done in the last 2 years. Why? Because I wasn’t just moderating. I was part of the story. Sharran Deora (General Partner at DV) and Victor Jakubiuk (co-founder of OnSpecta, acquired by Ampere, now DV’s primary GP … Read more
The next edge in venture is knowing your portfolio better. The Venture5 team just wrapped up a conversation with Jonathan Geehan (CFO at Techstars), Healy Jones (Head of Finance at Neo), and Jason Miller (Founder/CEO at Foresight Data), and one tension kept surfacing throughout: finance teams have increasingly become the only people who can answer … Read more
“If I listened to everything our customer said, our product would be horrible.” Why do some companies sprint from seed to Series A in 18 months, while others grind for years and never quite get there? The metrics look similar on paper. Everyone’s got revenue. Everyone’s talking to customers. Everyone’s iterating. But something fundamentally different is happening under the hood. We brought together three people who … Read more
“You’re gonna have five hundred LPs in your fund.” Doug Dyer has been on both sides of the table—first as an LP investing in funds like Andreessen Horowitz, now as CFO at Chapter One. His biggest realization from switching sides? “Having a clear structure and documented process internally is super important for every fund manager, … Read more
“It’s just becoming two different asset classes.” We just wrapped up our latest virtual event on Q2 market trends, and something Reed McBride said that I’m still mulling over: Reed, Managing Partner at Mintaka VC, called out an “AI fever.” Here’s what he meant: while everyone’s chasing the flashy AI deals, some genuinely great companies … Read more
