Institutional Capital
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Nick Francis Will Fully Bootstrap His Next Venture Without Institutional Capital
“I can promise you this, Rob, it's going to be bootstrapped. No institutional capital.”
Tosi: Founders should delay or avoid institutional capital to retain focus
“You want to take institutional capital as late in the game as possible, if not wait forever, right? Like, challenge yourself to never take it. There's a lot of great things that come from institutional capital, but you're on the record, right? Like, they belie…”
Kelly: Individuals Now Access Institutional-Grade Alternatives at Institutional Fees
“It's a big sea change from the early days of those offerings and the access to those original investments to today where you have individual investors accessing the exact same investments as the largest, most sophisticated pools of institutional capital in the…”
Hoggett: The UK holds the world's second-largest pool of institutional capital
“We have the second largest pool of institutional capital in the world.”
Allen: Narrow market and lack of revenue blocked Rowvigor's institutional funding
“Then they started saying, well, we see what you've built. Rowing is still kind of narrow for us and nobody's paying for it. And so those two things became impediments to getting institutional capital.”
Zorub: Institutional capital is harder to raise today than ever before
“Much like every day that goes by is the hardest day to short that's ever been, I think probably every day that goes by is also probably the hardest day that it's ever been to raise a dollar of institutional capital. It is incredibly competitive to do so.”
Levels raised from approximately 100 angels before institutional capital
“Before we had our first institutional capital, I think we had about a hundred angels and operators that were investors that we were able to tap pretty consistently for the first couple of years.”
Awotona: Institutional capital provides validation necessary for enterprise customers
“It turns out that even in spite of the growth that we had in success that we had, there's still this validation that sort of comes with institutional capital. There are still a lot of very smart people, which the primary way in which they judge the quality of …”
Garg: Electric Capital uses traditional VC fund structures to attract institutional capital
“Yeah, we actually look pretty vanilla on that stuff. And the reason is, I think, from a product perspective, it's much easier to tap into institutional capital at scale if you're not trying to invent something new there.”
Gerstner: Altimeter deliberately avoids competing to lead Series A rounds
“First, I don't want to compete in that first round of institutional capital.”
Kayden: Diverse VC managers face fundraising inefficiencies that create investment opportunity
“We saw people who were extraordinarily talented who were struggling to raise institutional capital and still struggle today to raise sizable funds, and so recognize that that's really an inefficiency in the market, and we all know that that's where one should …”
Quiry predicts institutional capital will flood micro-SaaS acquisitions this decade
“I think this is the decade where our industry and Really kind of comes to its own or institutional capital and retail investors start looking for opportunity in this space.”
Asian Startups Face Stricter Business Model Bars for Institutional Capital
“Business models have to be thought through far more before we are able to have access to institutional capital.”
Xie: Institutional capital will meaningfully enter crypto by early 2019
“So I do think that the institutional capital is already coming in. I've heard of a number of funds that we're raising, and some of the names that they've raised from is definitely the institutional capital that I was hoping would come in. But in terms of a mea…”
Monegro: Regulatory clarity is required before institutional capital enters crypto
“I think we're going to see more of those this year, but ultimately, I think that before Before institutional capital can really rush in, we're going to need more clarity from the regulatory side.”