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late stage fund

also referred to as: late stage funds

4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 14, 2016 by Ryan Sarver · across every show →

Everything said about late stage fund, oldest first

Sep 14, 2016 neutral
Disclosure
Redpoint's late-stage fund rarely follows on in early-stage deals
“Red point strategy is to look at it almost as two totally from portfolios. And very, very rarely, I think there's probably, you know, one exception does our late stage fund invest from our early stage fund?”
Ryan Sarver Sep 14, 2016 ▶ 10:49 20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
Jan 21, 2019 negative
Opinion
Somerville: Late-stage funds sourcing new deals are less interesting than select growth funds
“Where I become more skeptical is groups that add later stage focused funds or other vehicles like that that aren't actually playing off of the inherent advantage that they have being in companies already. If they're just sourcing late stage companies they thin…”
Hunter Somerville Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 18:14 20VC: The Framework LPs Use To Assess Emerging Managers, What Concerns and Excites LPs in Potential Opportunities & The Current State of Seed Today with Hunter Somerville, Partner @ Greenspring Associates
Mar 4, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Somerville: Growth Funds with Capital Are Currently Not Deploying It
“Most of what I've seen from growth funds and late stage funds, or even if they have the capital, they're not actually deploying it.”
Hunter Somerville Mar 4, 2023 ▶ 11:02 Hunter Somerville: Biggest Mistake LPs Make; Deep Dive into Secondary Markets | 20VC #985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 15, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
O'Driscoll: 2018 Late-Stage VC Funds Will Outperform Early-Stage Funds
“A lot of the late stage funds are going to have a very excellent 2018 vintage where interestingly, the earlier guys won't because they won't have had it all the way through the system by the time the window shut.”
Rory O'Driscoll May 15, 2025 ▶ 15:13 OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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