Investors

'I think resonated in a market where seed stage funds suddenly started opportunity funds and everybody seemed to have a growth fund,' Breakout managing partner Lindy Fishburne tells VCJ.

At this year's NEXUS, Megan Wenrich of the All Aboard Fund spoke of rapid deployment and GCM Grosvenor's Jonathan Hirschtritt described climate finance gaps that were opening up.

As geopolitical tensions continue to rise, and opportunities to commit to GP strategies involving defense with it, investors are finding paths to investment with few ESG barriers, LPs said at NEXUS 2026.

Jeff Becker explains why Antler's US fund has more than doubled the size of its commitments, how AI is driving up start-up costs, and what it takes to be successful at the earliest stage of investing.

Cambridge Associates partner Tom Mitchell describes the LP experience amid a period of slow distributions and fast-moving news.

There is a growing gulf between the amount of capital VCs are trying to raise and how much investors are actually committing.

Vishnu Amble, founding director and head of investments for family office GreenBear Group, sits down for a Q&A with Venture Capital Journal.

Marcie Frost, CEO of the Californian pension plan, discussed the political pressure that surrounds the investors' sustainable investments and a desire for more ESG data for risk management purposes at NEXUS 2026.

Leader at Brown Advisory, which manages $12bn in assets for endowments and foundations, says LPs are anxious about a concentration of AI exposure in public markets and are leaning more heavily into venture this year to diversify high-growth assets.

As part of the Menlo Park, California-based firm’s foundational team, the 25-year VC veteran has recent experience as head of Five Arrows Global Technology and as senior portfolio manager at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.