Portfolio Construction, Power Laws and Fund Differentiation in Venture Capital - E623
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BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
If you have home run, more people will come in. Whereas if your companies are all duds and shit, then nobody's gonna come in. So most VC funds will eventually show that hey we have a good follow-on investor rate. Welcome to Brave. Learn from Southeast Asia's best tech leaders. Build the future, learn from our past, and stay human in between. No BS on Success. I'm Jeremy O, Venture Capitalist, Sarah founder, Harvard MBA, science fiction nerd, and dad of two daughters. Every week, we debate startup news, interview change makers, answer listener questions, and share personal insights. Join our movement of over 40,000 members and get transcripts, resources, and community at www.bravesa.com. Stay well and stay brave.
I'm going to continue with the LPDAC review. So obviously they show the investment team, and then they say, hey, we have some interns. So they talk about how we have a great founder experience. We treat them like family. Our thesis is that we invest in companies that show these three things: compounding modes, which includes proprietary data, network effects, and economies of scale. So these are the type of companies that we invest in, right? So raising two new funds. And then they show their kind of their fund performance. So again, they show like how much money they raised, how much of it was they called, which is they used. Then what's the multiple investment capital that was the returns? What's the TDPI?
And what's the gross IRR, right? So the rate of return. And so what they're saying is we have two funds. So this is a little bit closer to a multi-stage fund, basically. But basically what I'm saying is we will do a seed investment, right? Then we will do pro rata. is the portfolio construction, a seed fund that does about a seed or series A fund, about fifty percent of the capital will do the initial check. And then 50% of their fund size will go to do the Pro Rata for a smaller number of those portfolio companies. So for example, I give you an example was if you have 20 companies, a normal C company will do, let's say you're doing 20 investments, you may choose to do, I'm just giving up a $200 million fund.
$100 million goes into 20 companies at $5 million each, and then the $100 million, so half of that fund goes to five companies. At 20 million dollars each. So we make 20 investments here, then we make five follow-on investments, the top 25% of the 20 that we think are winners. So this example of a seed fund that we have or series A fund as well. That would also apply for generalist index funds like 40 startups, but the allocation of capital is about we just make it 50-50 on those two things. Then obviously, this company basically saying we have an opportunity fund. So we want to do the round. after that so we're raising a separate vehicle to invest in the best companies that can do a series B. So they did it C, then we pro rata for Series A, there's one vehicle and then this opportunity fund will do
Follow on for That. It's a little bit technical, but I will say is your initial check normally is deployed across two years in general for most VCs, two-year time period, the first two years. And then normally your pro rata will happen in year two to year four, I would say, because your best companies one year afterwards will already raise a new round. So normally your pro rata will normally come in year two. And then it may stretch up to year five, I would say, around that time frame. frame for you to find it because you make the right investments. Around the time frame, year four, year five. And then the rest of the year is quite silent because you're waiting for them to grow up further. Most capital, 50% of capital, will probably be called by
within the first two years, yeah.
What does the LP deck reveal about the fund’s strategy and team?
Because you need to in the classic strategy that we talked about, you deploy in the first two years and then your follow-on investments. So normally the fund will try to do maximum on average three capital calls. One the first capital call for year zero to get started. And the capital call roughly around year 1.5, roughly I'm just ballparking here, to fund some pro rata investments and the the last set of initial investments.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:23
2
What does the LP deck reveal about the fund’s strategy and team?
3:23–6:00
3
How does the fund allocate capital between seed checks and pro‑rata follow‑ons?
6:00–9:06
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What is the typical capital‑call schedule for a VC fund’s first five years?
9:06–9:56
Speakers
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