Dye: Mega-VC firms now operate more like institutional asset managers
AJ Dye · Bridging Investment and Operations: AJ Dye on Scaling Tech with Vertex Innovations and Unifi Ventures · Jun 25, 2025 · at 20:31
AJ Dye, Venture Partner at Unifi Ventures, contrasts the strategy of multi-billion-dollar VC firms with traditional early-stage funds.
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“If you look at where Andreessen, General Catalyst, a lot of those firms have kind of taken their model, it starts to look much more like an asset management firm than the Artisanal craft, you know, two hundred million dollar fund venture capital of the kind of 2000.”
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