Emerging Managers

The Atlanta emerging manager focuses on Black entrepreneurs and will invest in its hometown of Atlanta and in such cities as DC, Houston, Detroit, St. Louis, and New Orleans.

First-time VC investors took a hit amid covid-19 lockdowns, but the re-opening of much of the economy this summer is expected to result in more face-to-face meetings with LPs, according to placement agent Kelly DePonte of Probitas Partners.

Backed with $1.35m in seed funding, newly launched Revere VC aims to expose more LPs to the venture asset class, beginning with its curated VC platform called The Portal.

The emerging manager is led by partners who have invested in Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and other alternative protein companies.

One of the world's leading mutual funds has taken advantage of its Silicon Valley location to become a meaningful VC player. Over the last five years, the firm invested nearly $1bn in late-stage and mid-stage venture capital deals.

The Cairo-based firm looks to use its strategic LP base to bring additional value to seed and Series A companies.

Sorenson Ventures seeks to raise $100m for its second fund, nearly two years after it closed its inaugural effort at $110m.

Oper8r co-founders Winter Mead and Welly Sculley chat about their firm, which operates as an institutional fund management training program for emerging venture capital firms, and the GP-LP relationship.

The firm looks to leverage its recently announced partnership with multicultural marketing company LERMA/ and its strategic LP base to help young companies.