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
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Sertoglu: Bek Ventures partners committed nearly 10% to their $250M fund
“We think a lot about GP commitment size. We have a very high GP commitment in the fund, and what is it? It's close to 10% of a two hundred and fifty million dollar fund.”
Cem Sertoglu Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 32:02 Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 20, 2024
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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.”
Cem Sertoglu Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 16:00 Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 20, 2024
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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”
Cem Sertoglu Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 28:15 Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 20, 2024
What-if
Sertoglu: Doubling UiPath's seed valuation would not have impacted fund returns
“For UiPath, if we'd done the seed round at twice the valuation, it wouldn't have really, you know, made a, made any difference. It would have still been a fantastic outcome.”
Cem Sertoglu Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 10:10 Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 20, 2024
Insight
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…”
Cem Sertoglu Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 23:49 Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 20, 2024
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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…”
Cem Sertoglu Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 53:04 Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 20, 2024 bullish
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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…”
Cem Sertoglu Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 0:00 Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 20, 2024
Disclosure
Sertoglu: We intentionally disagree with founders during term sheets to test dynamics
“We usually try to disagree with the founders in the term sheet process at least once so that we kind of see the dynamics of what happens around that.”
Cem Sertoglu Nov 20, 2024 ▶ 27:05 Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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