Steve Lord
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 7 Apr
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Thank you.
Glad to be here.
VC sure.
Um, I think the the best summation of it is kind of more of the same, unfortunately.
I mean, we've all been kind of peering into the fog looking for signs of a turnaround, but the bottom line environment continues to be heavy AI dominance.
little exitability out of existing VCs.
So LPs, the, you know, these are the folks that give the VCs their money in the first place.
They're not getting returns.
So this is a whole system is still kind of very gummed up.
And you know
Well over three quarters, probably closer to eighty or eighty-five percent of of all new money is going to.
really the the top ten managers.
Right.
So even younger, newer, maybe smaller VCs are having a really hard time finding
capital.
Um
So there's this sort of like stasis that we're in where AI continues to really be the or or a version of AI continues to be the only deal that's really getting funded.
Everybody else is kind of fighting for the scraps.
And
All of the new LP capital that's going into the VCA ecosystem in general is being concentrated in the top five funds, top ten, injury and reason, vibe, you know.
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