HOW TO START A FUND FROM SCRATCH.

It's 2020. Starting a fund shouldn't be tribal knowledge or the domain of a fortunate few. Join a select cohort of new fund managers learning the brass tacks of raising a first fund. Meet LPs. Virtual and free.

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An Immersion Program Where You Learn from the Best

Learn the secrets of starting and running a fund from world-class managers who have done it from scratch

Josh Kopelman

Founder & Partner, First Round Capital

Investments include: AltSchool, Clover Health, Flatiron

Ann Miura-Ko

Co-Founding Partner, Floodgate

Lyft, Okta, Refinery29

Jeff Clavier

Founder & Managing Partner, Uncork Capital (formerly SoftTech VC)

Eventbrite, Postmates, Sendgrid

Brian Singerman

Partner, Founders Fund

Affirm, Oscar Health, Stemcentrx

Alexia (Tsotsis) Bonatsos

Founder & General Partner, Dream Machine

TruStory, Omni, Fable Studios

Ray Tonsing

Founder & Managing Partner, Caffeinated Capital

Airtable, Virta Health, Opendoor

Hunter Walk & Satya Patel

Co-founders & Partners, Homebrew

Chime, Finix Payments, Honor

Ryan Hoover

Founder & General Partner, Weekend Fund

Headspin, Intercom, Tandem

Julia Lipton

Founder & General Partner, Awesome People Ventures

Hireclub, Stream, Superpeer

Lucy Guo & Dave Fontenaut

General Partners, Backend Capital

Popshop Live, MainStreet, Ramp

Harry Stebbings

Founder, Stride.VC & 20VC

Cazoo, Nex Health, Spiketrap

Hadley Harris

Founding General Partner, ENIAC Ventures

Hinge, Vungle, Zero

Jeff Morris Jr

Founder & General Partner, Chapter One Ventures

Cameo, Roam Research, Superhuman

Minal Hasan

Founder & General Partner, K2 Global

PayTM, Revolution, Beam

Bobby Goodlatte

Co-founder & Managing Partner, Form Capital

Almanac, Puzzl, Supercast

Turner Novak

General Partner, Gelt.vc

Muze, WeeCare, Bubble  

Sahil Lavingia

Founder & General Partner, Shl.vc Rolling Fund

Lambda School, Figma, Hellosign

Todd Goldberg

Todd & Rahul's Angel Fund

Charthop, Scratchpad, Supabase

Avlok Kohli

CEO, AngelList Venture

Samir Kaji

Senior Managing Director, First Republic Bank

Servicing startup, VC, and PE ecosystem

Five modules. Everything you need to know to launch a debut fund.

Fall 2020 Cohort: September 21st to November 13th

1 Evaluating Options and Transitions

From angel investing, syndicating, becoming a scout, to raising a rolling or traditional fund - the transition to a fund is beset with options. What is the best on-ramp for you?

2 Differentiation and Branding

Telling your story of what makes your fund different, how you will win, your thesis and strategy - and effectively communicating that to LPs.

3 Mechanics of Fundraising

Whom should you target as LPs, how should you begin those conversations, and how can you engineer a close?

4 Portfolio Construction

How much capital should you put into each company, would you reserve capital, what kind of valuations and stages will you target, and how many investments will you make?

5 LP Week

Meet and build relationships with potential LPs and hear their feedback on your pitch.

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See what participants have said of our past program.

Thank you for such an incredible series! That was enough insights and knowledge that would have taken each of us months to dig up ourselves.

Early employee, Pinterest; Syndicate Lead

It was truly amazing and inspired me to take next steps! I always feel like it’s not the right time or my network of LPs isn’t mature enough, but I’m getting closer and closer to being ready by the day.

Operations and People leader, $1B tech company