Fund 1
fund on 5 shows · 10 statements across 9 episodes
Startups For the Rest of Us 
the Neon Show 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
Sourcery 
20VC
10 statements about Fund 1, every show
Walling: TinySeed has fully returned Fund 1 plus net profits
“We are in a Pretty unique position of having survived this long and having returned fund one at this point and return more than fund one. We returned actual investment returns to our fund one investors”
Frankel: Founder Collective Fund 1 had zero reserves for follow-ons
“Fund one was a literally Zero reserve fund. We were, there was no follow on. Zero. Like when we said we were seed and pre-seed, that's exactly.”
Post-2023 emerging VC managers hold a distinct advantage over older vintages
“There are emerging managers who are coming to market with new funds, so call it Like a 20, 23 plus emerging manager who I think has the benefit of not getting caught up in what was, what's been a really challenging market cycle. And so if you're just starting …”
Lunia: India Quotient Fund 1 returned 5.9x net to LPs
“Let's say, yeah, in Indian rupees equivalent, yes, we've returned six, six, 5.9 X net to the LPs.”
1confirmation's first fund had zero complete write-offs across 22 investments
“In the first one, 22 investments, we've only we haven't had any zeros. We've had two projects that basically you know, dissolved, but they actually gave back, in one case, about 50%, and in, in another case, about 70%. So we actually haven't had any, Zeroes in…”
Harlem Capital capped Fund 1 GP commit at $250K despite hitting $40M
“So fund one, our target was 25, our cap was 40. We hit forty million. So we ended up doing two 50 K instead of 400 K, right?”
First Cheque backed almost 100 companies through its first fund
“We've backed almost a hundred companies now through the first fund.”
Almost half of First Cheque's first 100 investments raised follow-on funding
“If you look at the first score, the first 32 deals we did out of those 20 21 have raised follow on rounds now. If you look at our second cohort, which is the next sort of 3035 deals we did out of those 12 13 I've raised follow on rounds and out of the last coh…”
Ghorpade details Exfinity Fund 1 and Fund 2 performance and sizing
“So first fund was 125 crores. We funded nine companies out of it. And we wrote down two of them. We have we launched a second fund, which in, in 2016, this was a 300 crore fund. Where we funded about 19 companies.”
Haystack scaled check sizes from $25K in Fund I to $500K
“Fund one was 25 K checks, Fund two was 50 and a hundred K checks with a couple of 200. Fund three was a hundred to two 50 K checks with a couple of six, four to 600 checks. And then fund four, which we're just closing up has been around 500 K checks, give or t…”