Beezer Clarkson

Managing Director, LGT Capital Partners · 3 appearances on the record.

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Elizabeth "Beezer" Clarkson is a limited partner who has committed over $1.2 billion across more than 200 early-stage venture capital funds globally. In 2016, she launched OpenLP, a platform fostering transparency between tech founders, general partners, and limited partners.

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7 assertions · 5 opinions · 10 insights · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Clarkson: Venture valuations across stages have retrenched to 2019-2020 levels

“We're seeing a retrenchment in almost every single level, back to 19 or 20 pricing, which doesn't mean to say it's falling off a cliff.”

Beezer Clarkson Feb 27, 2023 ▶ 33:49 Venture Capital Panel – Beezer Clarkson, Chris Douvos, and Joelle Kayden (Capital Allocators, EP.299)

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What they said27 Episodes3

Everything Beezer Clarkson said on Capital Allocators that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure

Clarkson: Sapphire commits $100M-$125M annually to VC funds via $10M-$15M checks

“One of the things that we do is that we're consistent every year with the amount of capital we commit, and it's about a hundred and twenty-five million. We like to write checks that are, call it loosely, 10 to fifteen million, so you can guesstimate our pacing…”

Beezer Clarkson Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 36:48 Beezer Clarkson – Sapphire Gem of Early Stage Venture (Capital Allocators, EP.120)

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Clarkson: LaunchCenter 39 GPs returned uncalled capital to LPs post-2001

“Come 2001, The world went belly up in tech, and to their credit, back then, GPs gave the money back to LPs. I know, shocking, right? Can you believe it? And so they did well by their LPs, and they gave the money back that wasn't invested, and they basically sh…”

Beezer Clarkson Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 9:15 Beezer Clarkson – Sapphire Gem of Early Stage Venture (Capital Allocators, EP.120)

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Clarkson: LP voices were largely absent as venture communication moved online

“If you study venture, and you say, oh, well, blogging became super important, and then tweeting, and then podcasting, the LP voice isn't there.”

Beezer Clarkson Jan 20, 2020 ▶ 50:17 Beezer Clarkson – Sapphire Gem of Early Stage Venture (Capital Allocators, EP.120)

Appearances (3)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Venture Capital Panel – Beezer Clarkson, Chris Douvos, and Joelle Kayden (Capital Allocato	Feb 27, 2023	11m
Mike Smith and Nikhil Basu Trivedi – Footwork Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.12)	Sep 23, 2021	7m
Beezer Clarkson – Sapphire Gem of Early Stage Venture (Capital Allocators, EP.120)	Jan 20, 2020	44m

Beezer Clarkson

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