Core sequences long-horizon investments early in its 10-year fund cycles
Kathleen Utecht · 20VC: Why VC Is A Lifestyle Not A Job, Why You Must Do Post-mortems On Good and Bad Deals & Why Society Is On A Downgrade with Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner @ Core Innovation Capital · Sep 13, 2017 · at 10:49
Kathleen Utecht, Managing Partner at Core Innovation Capital, explains how VC funds structure portfolio deployment across a 10-to-12-year lifespan.
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“So, so our fund will, It was 10, 10 plus two, and you could see how in some of the things that we're funding that they're going to be take a full 10 years, and so we're very well aware when we're investing to invest in some of those companies in the beginning versus the end, but I do think that they can fit in.”
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