Top Tier Capital Partners

“While we might invest in first-time funds, we won't invest in first-time investors, so there must be a track”

“First meeting, it's more context. Who are you? What are you doing? Why is it different? Second meeting is generally drilling a little bit further into companies because you probably have some, a track record of some sort.”

“So we really added secondaries and co-investments to our portfolio construction so that we could really reduce and shorten the J-curve for institutional investors.”

“If it comes from somebody I know, i.e. A warm introduction, I always answer. I either take a call or meeting, or I turn it over to someone on my team”

“Some of these people have been very good at continuing to keep in front of us, and they are the ones that we've ended up Committing to, because they're doing things, you know, they said they're going to do something, they're giving us more information, and so …”

“Our average commitment is twenty million, that's because that's kind of what ours is in our main kind of U.S.”

“And we've done this, it could be that we're evaluating and doing our compare and contrast, as we call it, and there might be a One of the best performers in our portfolio, and we don't re-up, and the numbers would tell you all day long, you know, with your eye…”

“It's changed, obviously, dramatically from a very small cottage industry that was really Silicon Valley in Boston, so it was really US-based, and I would say the biggest change that we see today is really the globalization, and sitting in this room, you know, …”

“I think the industry standard is one percent, so you want somebody at least be doing one percent”

“We had two fund-to-funds that didn't even have a J-curve. I mean, think about it. Venture capital only, fund-to-funds, no J-curve.”

“I cannot go through a pitch deck. I just don't have, I don't have the capacity. I think I'm ADD. I don't know what it is. So I like to have a conversation.”

“Included in their stellar fund portfolio is the likes of Index, Initialize, True Ventures, Andreessen, and some of my favorites in Ed and Elliot at Boldstart, just to name a”