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I get asked on the daily now about selling secondaries given the current market and lack of liquidity. Huge 🙏🙏 To Hunter Walk Homebrew for this blog and table on the logic underpinning why 'buy and hold' is being replaced by 'buy and maybe sell.'" hunterwalk.com/2025/04/21/pra…

“Index has become a franchise fund by keeping the main thing the main thing – by focusing on core principles of being exceptional early-stage investors instead of chasing trends.” In this Origins minisode, I sat down with my Sapphire Partners colleague Nate Leung to reflect on my

for everyone wondering about life in endowment land right now given everything going on ...great post by Meghan Reynolds 👇

Huge congrats to Liu Jiang & the Sunflower Capital team on the close of Fund II! Liu’s background at Sequoia, angel track record & Fund I portfolio reflect the clarity of strategy, early traction & focus needed for emerging managers in this tough market. Sapphire Partners is proud

Yup. Depends on ownership @ exit, fund size and valuations. We have seen it but getting harder.

Happy Monday. Kicking it off with re-sharing great guidance on how to build relationship with institutional LPs for future funds. 👇 #openlp

I'm livestreaming my conversations onboarding new users to Farcaster. My chat with Beezer Clarkson answering questions about channels, community, mini apps, permissonless social graph, wallet, and more!

There’s a big difference between spinning out and building an institutional-grade venture fund. Tomasz Tunguz joined us on Origins to break down how he’s thinking about firm architecture at @theoryvc, covering ownership, AI ops, & long-term succession planning. This one goes deep on

Yes yes yes! Great list of what should be in a data room and 1000% on excel. 👇 This is a tough fundraising environment…a clean data room truly helps #openlp

🙏 David Clark and Packy McCormick on growth in value on largest US VC backed exits. resharing for everyone who missed it 🤞🤞🤞🤞the trend of the value of the top 1% exits essentially double every 5 years continues. #openlp

The latest Origins episode marks a milestone: our 100th 🎉. What better conversation to mark it than with Tweets from Zach Weinberg on how Curie.Bio is building the YC of Biotech. Across biotech, we’re seeing both traditional approaches & newer entrants bringing lessons from

Had such a fun time joining my friend @PeterJ_Walkeron The Data Minute from Carta. After years of being online friends, so nice to finally record this one in person! We covered a lot: how mega funds are shaping early stage rounds, why I still see emerging managers with real

In Q1 we saw LPs showing a preference for spinouts when making emerging manager investments. A reflection of what LPs are prioritizing in 2025: experience & repeatability. Kyle Harrison & I got into all of it on Tech Today with Eric Tarczynski including why secondaries are no longer a dirty word

Yes. This 👇💥 “outlier firms are built by outlier investors looking for outlier founders.” 🙏 Mike Dauber for sharing this

For those of us wishing we could be @ the Benchmark AGM and hear Bill’s State of VC observations… here you go 😊

The VC fund scorecard for Q1 2025. 2,500+ funds included, most under $100M in size. Benchmarks for 25th through 90th percentile performance on Net IRR, Net TVPI, and DPI. Full report in following post.