New to VC: Starting Your Own Fund
New to VC is an educational series for a group of relatively new investors who want to be exposed to the best venture and startup thinking. Each event is attended by accredited investors and non-partner VCs that skew intentionally, but not exclusively, toward underrepresented backgrounds.
This time, we'll be discussing starting your own fund. Starting a fund is more than just raising LP capital. It's developing a thesis, potentially recruiting a team, and creating a brand. It also means figuring out the structure of your fund--be it working with an existing organization and pool of capital or starting everything from scratch. We'll talk to a panel of investors who created very different funds and how they grew their firms into successful brands.
Speakers:
Karin Klein, Founding Partner at Bloomberg Beta
Bloomberg Beta is an early-stage venture capital firm backed by Bloomberg L.P. that invests in startups making work better. Bloomberg Beta has $375M under management and was the first venture firm to focus on the future of work and the first to focus on artificial intelligence. The firm sees Bloomberg L.P. as an inspiration for startups: founded on a powerful idea, led by its founders for decades, reaching global scale, and embracing technology as part of a strong, transparent company culture.
John Neamonitis, Founder & General Partner at Lakehouse Ventures
Lakehouse is a seed stage investment firm founded in 2016 that backs founders building products, services, and software that are essential to everyday life.
Erica Duignan Minnihan, Founder and General Partner at Reign Ventures
Reign is a Seed Stage Venture fund that invests in consumer tech and enterprise software startups with underrepresented founders.
Sponsors:
Haymaker is a public relations firm based in New York, which works with the most exciting high-growth companies operating in the U.S., including Oatly, G2, Gympass, and Pipedrive.
Cooley LLP — Our lawyers advise venture capital firms, corporate VCs, growth equity firms, family offices and high-growth companies on 1,700+ private financings each year. We understand all angles and offer support at all stages of investment. Our integrated, cross-disciplinary team can take you from fund formation to investment to exit, partnering with your internal resources to guarantee seamless collaboration and offering the specialty platform you need to support your portfolio companies.
This is event is hosted by nextNYC. To learn more about nextNYC and/or sign up for their newsletter, visit http://next.nyc