Tomasz Tunguz
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first heard Jun 2025
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raised fund one in late twenty two, which is when the Fed had raised rates five hundred bips.
Must have been not a great time to raise, but we were able to raise fund one.
We raised about two hundred thirty five, we were oversubscribed.
Yeah.
And um and then we raised fund to about four hundred a little more than four hundred fifty million two years later.
And congratulations.
Oh nice.
Thanks.
Uh and yeah, so we're we're off to the races.
We have a head of AI who is head of AI at three unicorns and our CO built the healthcare practice at Palantir.
And as I said before, we invest in a small number of companies and work really hard to help them grow by building out their sales teams.
Yeah, well I think there's a pretty big change in the I mean, if you look at like hedge funds and private equity, a lot of them have restructured it to basically operating companies.
And I think the same thing will happen with venture capital.
We think about the products that we sell as financial products, right?
The when I started in the business in two thousand eight, Series A was a financial product where we invested four for twenty five percent of a company.
And that product doesn't get any buyers anymore.
Uh because uh, you know, the US venture capital asset class has grown from about eight to two hundred fifty billion during that time, and so there's a lot more capital.
Uh and so we have to differentiate our capital somehow.
And the way that we differentiate is by depth.
So we operate
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