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What are VC Fund Secondaries?

16 Nov 2025

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Episode SummaryMax Kausman is the founder and solo GP of Advance VC, Australia's first dedicated fund-of-funds with a focus on secondaries.Advance VC buys existing positions in Australian and New Zealand VC funds—acquiring stakes from investors seeking liquidity and giving new LPs diversified access to mature, validated portfolios across multiple vintages dating back to 2012.In this conversation, they discuss why secondaries won't "save" all of venture (only the top performers), how discounts actually work (spoiler: the average is 30-35% but it's wildly bespoke) and why vintage diversification matters as much as portfolio diversification.Time Stamps02:47 – Max's first investment: lessons as a 14-year-old basketball coach07:08 – Defining secondaries and Advance VC's unique LP fund focus09:44 – Why vintage diversification matters as much as company diversification13:57 – How secondary transactions actually work: the three-way deal between buyer, seller, and fund19:24 – What Max learned looking under the hood of Australian VCs firms across different funds and vintages24:09 – Why Max decided on a secondary Fund of Funds (FoF) model34:16 - Pricing secondaries42:20 – What discounts actually look like in practice47:40 – Will secondaries save venture? The truth about liquidity and why it's concentrated in top performers50:16 – Building Advance VC and the founder journey of becoming a fund managerResourcesMax Kausman - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxkausmanAdvance VC - https://www.advancevc.com/This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrpSpotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/

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