Szekasy: Kaszek Will Keep Core Early-Stage Fund Size Capped
Nicolas Szekasy · 20VC LATAM: LATAM's Largest Fund, Kaszek Ventures on Scaling from $100M to $1BN, Why Capital is not a Source of Moat & Why LATAM is More Than Copycat Companies with Nicolas Szekasy, Co-Founder @ Kaszek Ventures · Aug 16, 2021 · at 28:54
Nicolas Szekasy is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Kaszek Ventures, Latin America's largest VC firm. He addresses whether Kaszek plans to scale its primary early-stage fund into a multi-billion dollar vehicle.
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“We are fully convinced that we are first and foremost an early stage investor, and for that there's a certain size of fund that has a limit to ensure that you stay very effective and you continue to produce outsized returns. So that will not change, and maybe initially it took three years to raise between fund and two, and then it took two years, and the last time it took 18 months, so maybe we raise With more consistency, but that will probably not change very much.”
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