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Eakman: Foundry Group Will Not Attempt Generational Succession
“Foundries on the record is saying that, you know, we're not going to transfer this through a generational transition.”
Every fund raised by Foundry Group is capped at $225M
“Another corollary to that is that every fund we raised would be the same size. So we've raised multiple funds. Every one of them is two hundred and twenty-five million dollars.”
Levine: Foundry Group operates with zero analysts or associates
“We, all the partners do their own work. We don't have any analysts or associates.”
Foundry Group completes between seven and ten investments per year
“We do between seven and 10 investments per year, and there, there's probably, you know, 10 times that in terms of companies that we would invest in, in terms of the qualities of the teams or the entrepreneurs, but, you know, we have to keep a very high bar.”
Foundry Group averages 10 new investments per year
“Because we've constrained the size of our funds, we make 10 new investments a year, and approximately, some years we do eight, some years we do 12, but it's approximately 10 a year”