Active venture capital fund entities have quadrupled from 1,000 to 4,000
Chris Douvos · Chris Douvos – The LP's Perspective from Ahoy Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 2 (Capital Allocators, EP.230) · Jan 10, 2022 · at 13:45
Chris Douvos, founder of Ahoy Capital, cites data tracked by Samir Kaji to illustrate the dramatic proliferation of venture capital managers.
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“Samir over, he's running his own shop now, but when he was at First Republic, he used to track the number of funds that were out in the market. And it used to be A thousand. Like, that was always the number. Like, NVCA, National Venture Capital Association, always said there are about a thousand firms, 1200 firms. Those were always the numbers. I think Samir at last count found that there are 4000 people who are actually deploying capital in some sort of fund structure.”
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