LPs

6 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 6 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 6, 2022 by Doug Pepper · across every show →

Everything said about LPs, oldest first

May 6, 2022 bearish
Prediction Held up
Pepper: LPs will allocate less to VC and prioritize re-ups
“Those marks are going to be tough in the next couple of quarters. So yes, I think like all of us, LPs are reassessing the environment, trying to figure out what to do, And my guess is that they'll do what many others are doing, which is retrench a bit. And my …”
Doug Pepper May 6, 2022 ▶ 37:47 Doug Pepper, GP at Iconiq + Jason Lemkin of SaaStr: "Where Venture Is Right Now"
Sep 15, 2022 bearish
Assertion Supported
Lee: LPs Have Put on the Brakes for Venture Funds Raising
“Investors, LPs in venture funds have basically put on the brakes. And so any fund that is trying to raise right now is having a pretty hard time for the most part.”
Aileen Lee Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 22:08 VC State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder & MP Aileen Lee
Jan 10, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Top venture LPs reported an average 90% IRR in 2021
“Top LPs last year reported, had 90% average IRR. So they got drunk on this too, and they fueled it, and they took this stuff seriously.”
Jason Lemkin Jan 10, 2023 ▶ 10:40 Investing and Venture Capital in 2023 | SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin + Atrium Founder/CRO Pete Kazanjy
Feb 3, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Lemkin: LPs should quit GPs lacking billion-dollar cash exits by 2022
“If you did not, as a GP, if you've been investing more than six or seven years, and you didn't have multiple billion dollar cash outcomes in 22, at the best, because they were it was just so accelerated, You never will. Like, the LPs should just quit on you.”
Jason Lemkin Feb 3, 2023 ▶ 48:54 What Venture Looks Like In 2023 | SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin + 20VC Host Harry Stebbings
Feb 3, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Lemkin: VC LPs have no appetite to add new fund managers
“None, one, none of them want another manager. They don't. Okay. It's not that they won't take another manager in like they will, right? If you or I sent one of them an email and said, this is the best new fund on planet earth, they will probably write up, writ…”
Jason Lemkin Feb 3, 2023 ▶ 38:45 What Venture Looks Like In 2023 | SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin + 20VC Host Harry Stebbings
Feb 3, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stebbings: LPs penalize VC managers who missed chances to return DPI
“On the re-ups, from what I understand, and I speak to a lot of LPs, if you had the chance to produce DPI last year, and you didn't, you're in the bad books.”
Harry Stebbings Feb 3, 2023 ▶ 47:08 What Venture Looks Like In 2023 | SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin + 20VC Host Harry Stebbings
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