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IRR for LAFPP's venture portfolio is twice as high as benchmarkDespite moderating deployment pace after a flurry of commitments during the peak covid years, $35bn pension still has interest piqued by venture in a constrained market.
Side Letter: Inflexion doubles downLondon's Inflexion leaned on existing LPs to more than double the size of its latest Enterprise vehicle. Plus: CVC joins the secondaries evergreen party; and meet the family office putting everything into impact. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.
Seed investor Ben Narasin sees value in SPV modelFour weeks after the soft launch of Tenacity, Narasin noted on LinkedIn that he already had enough commitments to do a first close.
Canvas Ventures collects $350m for third fundCanvas Ventures has raised $350 million for its third fund.
LP roundup: US pensions pump nearly a quarter billion dollars into fundsLPs announced $225m of new venture commitments including multiple organizations that haven't invested in the asset class in years.
Friday Letter: VC could be headed for dark daysAre investors and entrepreneurs hungry enough to survive the bumpy road ahead?
Amplify Partners promotes twoAmplify Partners announced it promoted Lenny Pruss to general partner and Sarah Catanzaro to partner.
LA pension continues its push into venture, adds two new managers to its portfolioLAFPP continues to dive further into venture, investing $27.5m across two vehicles for Acrew and Canvas.
Friday Letter: Top 10 venture-related stories from 2019From personnel changes and unicorns to IPOs and off-the-charts fundraising, here's my list of the top 10 stories from 2019.
Where are they now? Social CapitalWe followed up with some of Social Capital's former partners to find out what came of the executives who left the firm.