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Can an LP also be a Venture Partner and if so what would the recommended carry be if they have dual roles of executive and fundraising?

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Yes. However there are several issues with having Limited partners be Venture Partners. First, Limited Partners will loose various protections because the Venture Partners make decisions for the fund. Second, this creates a challenge for...

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How to become a scout

How do you become a VC scout? As far as I understand, it’s usually a freelance or part-time position, and companies typically don’t advertise such roles. However, I recall seeing some venture funds that had a link on their website, something like “Become a Scout with Us.” How can you find these kinds of programs? It seems logical for a fund’s management company to sign agreements with lots of scouts—maybe a hundred—so they can bring well-researched startups. But for some reason, that doesn’t appear to be the norm in the market. Has anyone tried reaching out to a fund’s managing directors directly and offering their services as a scout?

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What is the best way to approach a founder-turned HNWI for an LP consideration?

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The best approach is to build rapport before discussing investment. Learn about their interests and be helpful where possible. When ready, ask if they invest in new managers and how many they have invested in recently. Tailor your pitch ...

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Does investing in a round along Sequoia https://www.sequoiacap.com/ generally lead to higher or average returns?

A post on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7303170504356466690-5JL9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACD3IoBHOj2HcVqY8B_nToaE_XXXrZKAfA argued against copying other VCs' strategies. Specifically, it offered this example: when "2️⃣ Smaller firms pile in—not because they’ve built real conviction, but because the lead investor is prestigious. If Sequoia is in, it must be good, right?" Is there any evidence that joining a round in which Sequioa or any of the funds mentioned below are participating will result in average returns? Sequoia Capital: $2.85 billion Andreessen Horowitz: $2.75 billion Lightspeed Venture Partners: $2.2 billion Tiger Global Management: $2.1 billion Insight Partners: $2 billion

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No. This is because there are a lot of factors that impact returns besides just the valuation of the company such as the composition of the cap-table and the terms under which these rounds were completed.

 -  Mike Suprovici
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What is the average ticket size for an early-stage generalist fund's LPs in the MENA region?

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That's an impossible questions to answer because the check size is determined by the fund fundraising ability and their strategy. If a fund is doing pre-seed, perhaps they do more smaller investments. If they are seed, they need bigger c...

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Does Decile Hub's AI craft answers based on the inputs given by the community, or does it also look outside in the VC ecosystem to collate answers?

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We purposely do not allow Base to search outside of our database because much of the information that you will find about VC online is wrong. 

 -  Mike Suprovici
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What does PACT stand for?

Hey, just alerting the team that this is a very basic question Base's LLM should be trained to know[Screen Shot 2025-03-06 at 10.25.20.png].

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Pledge Agreement for Capital Transaction 

 -  Mike Suprovici
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For managing relationships with prospects and partners, is it mandatory that they are already using the Decile Hub Platform? Or to join the platform at any point?

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Hi Alejandro, I'm not sure if I follow the question 100%, but I'll try to answer. We've purpose built Decile Hub to be the best platform in the world for new and emerging managers to raise their funds. Typically, the fund managers and a...

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How can I log an investment in Hub?

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What to do first 1. Properly conduct due diligence of the deal and develop your conviction.  2. Write a memo and submit the deal for a Deal Review, so our Deals team can take a look.  3. Sign the investment document (SAFE, Convertible n...

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How can I add a Deal Memo?

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When you are ready to take a decision on an investment, it's a good time to create a deal memo.  Using Decile Hub to make a deal memo is a fast and easy process. Check out the video below to see how to do it. https://www.youtube.com/wa...

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How can I add Deals to Hub?

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Before you add Deals, you may want to Organize your Deals pipeline - this streamlines your deal input. Let's look at 3 methods for getting Deals into Hub: 1. Importing Deals using the Decile Chrome plugin 2. Manually create a Deal 3. Us...

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How can I organize my Dealflow pipeline?

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Before you start adding Deals to Hub, it's worth taking a moment to make sure your Deals pipeline is set up in a way that works for you and your workflow. Decile Hub has a LOT of features and options — because each manager wants to look...

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Existing funds that seem to be generally soliciting - how is this permissible?

There are a few funds that publicly accept money for their existing funds. For example, alumni ventures https://www.av.vc/av-funds. They have multiple funds and one (meaning any individual) can choose which fund to invest in.  1- is that not considered general solicitation because the fund already exists? But if the fund already exists, then its size is already known so when they raise more money for the same fund, then why doesn't it qualify as a new fund, which means they should not do general solicitation?  2- The minimum check size for alumni ventures is 10K. How ae they able to do that given there is overhead associated with getting small checks from LPs?