First Fund
topic on 4 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
Innovators & Investors 
the Neon Show 
Capital Allocators 
20VC
7 statements about First Fund, every show
Rizzo rarely backs former entrepreneurs in their first venture fund
“I'm rarely going to do something in a first fund for one of those, but when I see a track record that you show me, you've translated your capability of being an entrepreneur into being an investor. Then I love you because then I know that you can help entrepre…”
Stebbings: First Fund Had Startup Valued at $750M on $500K ARR
“I had over a thousand X ARR in my first fund. 500 K ARR, seven fifty million pre by one of the best growth funds.”
Guglani: All Morpheus Fund 1 investors profited and still hold equity
“All of them who invested in our first fund actually made a, have already made a decent amount of money and there is still equity left in that.”
Rubenstein's family office backs an enormous number of first-time funds
“In my family office, I invest an enormous number of first funds because I think they're smaller and they probably need me more and I can probably pay more attention to what they're doing and there'll be more co-investment opportunities and so forth”
Fein: The average debut venture capital fund takes 17 months to raise
“I think I'd read something in 2016 that the average amount of time it takes to raise a first fund is 17 months.”
Kaji: Homebrew raised its debut fund in under 100 days in 2013
“I think Homebrew did an incredible job. I mean, they raised their first fund in 2013 in less than a hundred days, and they raised it from some very, very high profile and very reputable LPs.”