Idea Generator

Are you running a fund or do you want to land a job in VC?
Take it to the next level…

• Submit valuable and unique insights, get noticed by GPs and LPs
• Refine your ideas interacting with peers
• Grow your reputation internationally and get rewarded for the value you bring to the table
• Create portfolios, compete with peers, win unique prizes and build a track record

VC Investors

Improve your deal-flow, refine your investment thesis, broaden your fundraising reach.
Just to begin with…

• Get access to hundreds of unique ideas, identify early opportunities
• Improve investment intelligence in dedicated working groups
• Source Talent
• Get intros to LPs

Limited Partners

Venture Capital is a unique asset class and can be difficult to navigate.
Top funds are beyond reach, new funds are very risky, and your mailbox is flooded with irrelevant stuff…
Finally a one stop shop for your VC allocation

• Identify target fund managers and opportunities to invest directly
• No more shady documentation! Filter, select, research opportunities in transparency
• Get guidance
• Stay Private: no one will see your name and contacts on platform (unless you want to…)

Resources

• 40 Precious Interview Questions, thanks First Round Capital

• More than just interview tips. A guideline to refine your investment thought process

• Thematic vs Thesis Driven Investing, according to Fred …and USV’s own thesis

• A VC explains what is an investment thesis, cheers to Scale Venture Partners

• Some further insight typologies of venture investing from David

• Stephen on the birth of a VC investment Thesis and bonus takeaways for aspiring investors

• Useful advice for GPs, on raising from LPs. Find out more in this useful podcasts from TFR with LP Trey Hart of Northern Trust

• and as you listen to it you might wonder what your metrics should look like to put your fund on the big board

• Never seen a Limited Partners Agreement before?. Time is ripe

• Term sheet negotiation: a very valuable guide and some arguable details from Jason Lemkin