Friday Letter

As the M&A and IPO markets remain stalled, we are seeing a proliferation of secondaries firms eager to provide liquidity to both VC funds and start-up founders.

Mountside Ventures’ new accelerator program is the first in Europe specifically geared to emerging VCs, who are struggling to secure commitments from limited partners.

CRV says valuations are too high to justify continued investment from its opportunity fund, but other VCs say they are still seeing plenty of good follow-on deals.

Rosalind Bazany, Beezer Clarkson and Senofer Mendoza are among the women Venture Capital Journal chose to recognize on PEI Group's fourth annual Women of Influence in Private Markets list.

"When firms like TPG are coming in to provide the finance for the facilities, that's a market signal that these projects are bankable" says Robert Ethier of Impact Science Ventures.

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Venture Capital Journal’s Guide to VC Secondaries Buyers has added six firms with nearly $14bn in secondaries capital in the past two months.

The global computer outage caused by CrowdStrike is raising awareness among VCs of the risk of over-reliance on any one service provider, including data centers.

Setter Capital’s H1 secondaries volume report paints a rosy picture for both venture capital secondaries and the broader secondaries market.