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What is your take on this? :point_right: Sequoia reportedly reduced the size of its cryptocurrency fund from $585M to $200M as it seeks to refocus investments into smaller startups. The venture capital firm is also said to have reduced the amount earmarked for investing in other funds from $900M to $450M.

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Sequoia had reportedly notified its liquidity providers of its intentions to reduce fund sizes in March.
The crypto fund was launched in Feb. 2022. At the time, the market capitalization of the entire sector had been reduced by 39.1% versus the all-time high of $3T in Nov. 2021.
Sequoia was one of the investors in FTX with $214M, which by Nov. 2022, was marked down to $0.
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If in its first 18 months your $10MM fund writes off $6.5MM in holdings, many marked down to $0, you should notify your LPs that going forward you plan to reduce your fund sizes to respond to changed market conditions! Add that you have a new strategy to refocus your investment strategy!
FTX - they have to fall on their sword - zero serious DD ...
I'd position this with LPs as sector returning to normalcy. The sector has not collapsed, it's just Sequoia and others raised too much and will now have to do actual due diligence. Irrational behavior has come to an end for the time being, juvenile capital is leaving the space, crypto "arts-and-crafts" projects are shutting down, and it's time for smart money to start making investments in real businesses
Thursday, August 03, 2023
This is called wise financial management. Having massive funds that you can’t deploy for years is not wise.

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