Bek Ventures
8 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 20, 2024 by Cem Sertoglu · across every show →
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Nov 20, 2024
Nov 20, 2024
Sertoglu: Bek Ventures partners average one to two investments per year
“When you are a small partnership, I mean, in our firm for every fund, each partner writes about four or five checks per fund. So in kind of each vintage, we're talking each year, we're talking about one or two investments at most.”
Nov 20, 2024
Sertoglu: Bek Ventures Passed on Rushed Deals, Not High Valuations, in 2021
“In 2021, when the market was in a frenzy, we would never categorically pass on evaluation, so we've written very expensive checks in that period, but we would categorically pass on not having enough time to understand the business and digest the opportunity”
Nov 20, 2024
Nov 20, 2024
Sertoglu: VCs sell time, attention, and portfolio capacity, not cash
“I think our, what we sell is not our cash. The cash is available. It's I mean, the seed and a rounds are flush with New capital coming in all the time. So I think what we sell is our time and attention and capacity, and we're selling one of those 20 slots in t…”
Nov 20, 2024
Sertoglu: Bek Ventures' Fund 1 returned capital on 12 of 15 deals
“In fund one out of 15 investments, only three of them did not return capital for us. Now, six companies are still live, but we expect to make money from all six of them, so they will not be lost. So we will have made A positive return out of, on 12 out of 15 i…”
Nov 20, 2024 bullish
Cem Sertoglu: Bek Ventures Fund 1 achieved 20x MOIC, 85% from UiPath
“The best single venture investment, you know, 16 and a half million investments that has brought us back to .1000000000 dollars in proceeds. So fund one is 20 time multiple on invested capital. 2.7 of that is non UiPath. So about 85% of the proceeds of fund on…”