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Get the inside scoop on what VCs are thinking and where they are investing today and tomorrow. Anne Kennedy and Gillian Muessig guide you through the opaque world of venture capital and reveal all the ways you can source capital for your company's growth. It all starts right here with Anne Kennedy and Gillian Muessig on VC Confidential.
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Investing in Good Corporate Governance from 2023-12-13T18:26:59.866961
Following the Janaury 3rd guilty verdict for Theranos Founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes in federal court, Gillian and Anne dive into the further responsibilities of investors and board directors to ...
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How to Organize Your Capital Raise from 2023-12-13T18:26:59.861316
it’s January. Resolutions time. Get-organized time. Gillian and Anne talk about organizing the Fund Raising Process for raising capital. They’ve been at it for a while now at the Sybilla Masters Fu...
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More About Functional Boards from 2021-10-21T17:09
Gillian and Anne talk about Boards of Directors. They covered this topic at a high level in a 2020 episode here at VC Confidential, ‘Why Investors Need Strong Boards’. This time, they dig a bit dee...
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Warrants&Venture Debt from 2021-10-05T16:57
Gillian and Anne delve into warrants. Just one of the forms of venture debt, a warrant is such a useful investment instrument and so few people seem to understand what it does, how it’s used, who u...
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LP Updates: What to Expect from Your Fund Manager from 2021-09-27T11:24:47
Gillian and Anne delve into what LPs should expect from investor updates, and how GPs and Managing Directors can prepare valuable LP updates for both written and video-conference communications wit...
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Preferential Rights&Other Easter Eggs from 2021-08-09T11:52
In their continuing crusade to rip the lid off the opaque corner of private fin ace known as venture capital, Gillian and Anne drill into more of the often confusing language and clauses found in c...
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The Real Cost of Operating Venture Capital Funds from 2021-07-26T11:49
While large VC Funds seem like a lot of money to invest in entrprenuers, the expenses of running a fund over a 10-year life (on average) chip away at the sum persistently. Management fees, legal an...
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Defining Venture Debt with Denise Dunlap, Sage Growth Capital from 2021-05-31T04:00:19
Gillian & Anne welcome Denis Dunlap to this episode to discuss how venture debt works, and how it differs from conventional VC equity deals. Venture debt is a an increasingly popular form of reven...
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CF Funds Help New Investors Get Started from 2021-05-24T04:00:14
Amid a rising clamor to become angel or venture investors, even among people who do not meet the Securities and Exchange Commission’s strict rules to qualify, new platforms and mobile apps have eme...
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Inside VC with Diane Fraiman, Voyager Capital from 2021-05-17T04:00:11
Anne & Gillian welcome Diane Fraiman, Managing Director at Voyager Capital, founded in 1997. With more than $520 million under management, Voyager invests in B2B software, cloud, and big data appli...
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What If There Were a VC Index Fund? from 2021-05-10T11:51:50
Returns from conventional venture capital funds have lagged below those from public market investing consistently and stubbornly since 1997. That is more than two decades. In their continuing ques...
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De-Risking Venture Capital from 2021-04-27T11:39
Deservedly called the riskiest asset class, Venture Capital has underperformed public markets for decades, and since 1997 less cash has been returned to VC investors than they have invested, report...
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What’s In a VC Fund Thesis? from 2021-04-19T14:51:29
Gillian and Anne explore how venture capital funds form, market, and express their investment theses. Founders need to know which VC to pitch for capital, just as investors want to find funds that ...
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What Goes Into A Term Sheet? from 2021-04-10T14:51
Term sheets are one of the critical pieces to success in venture investing. They come after due diligence and before investment documents. Gillian & Anne dig into what term sheets usually contain, ...
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24 Likely Post-Pandemic Winners from 2021-03-15T21:20
Gillian and Anne take a look at where venture capital investors will be looking in the coming months as the world eases out of lockdown and distancing. Digital infrastructure improvements and innov...
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Be an Ally to Women Funders from 2021-03-12T13:51:30
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Gillian and Anne talk about women funders today. Knowing the sad stats about female founders receiving a pittance of conventional venture funding, they get u...
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Accredited Investor Rules -- What’s New? from 2021-03-02T15:21:52
The Securities and Exchange Commission of the US Federal government in 1982 set minimum qualifications for people to make private investments, to “protect investors from themselves”, according to o...
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Safes&Convertible Notes: What’s the Difference? from 2021-03-02T15:14:47
It’s back to basics with a review of investment vehicles commonly used in Venture Capital, starting the Convertible Notes and Safes (Simple Agreement for Future Equity). Functionally, convertible n...
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What it Means to Lead a Deal from 2021-02-23T22:44:45
What does leading a deal mean? What does a Deal Lead do? Why is it important to have one? Why don’t entrepreneurs lead their own deals as capital raises get larger? Gillian and Anne break it down a...
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Inside VC Minds: What Appeals, Really? from 2021-02-15T14:31
Gillian and Anne talk about how conventional VCs think. Debunking some conventional wisdom commonly said by VCs versus what actually goes on in VC funding, and what gets funded. To be fair, funders...
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Do’s and Don'ts of Deal Rooms from 2021-01-26T20:30
Gillian & Anne take a look at DEAL or DATA rooms and share some information about when to create them, what to put inside, how to share them. Broadly, deal rooms are created to share sensitive dat...
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Profitable Portfolio Construction from 2021-01-25T12:19
Briefly put, a portfolio construction model is a method of determining whether and how a Venture Capital fund is going to make enough money to return a reasonable ROI (return on investment) to its ...
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SPVs, Sidecars&Other Fast-moving Vehicles from 2021-01-19T20:25
Gillian & Anne are back with more on basic Venture Capital investing methods, this time explaining sidecars and what they are generally used for (beside motorcycle passengers in old movies). Here’ ...
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What to Expect in 2021 from 2021-01-05T14:32
Gillian and Anne review trends emerging from the tumult of 2020 that are not going back in the genie’s lamp, especially increased investing in diverse founders and women with better ways to fund fi...
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What Happened in 2020? from 2020-12-15T16:15
Anne and Gillian take a look back at 2020, the year we are all really glad to see come to an end. Oh, what a year it was! A global pandemic, a worldwide recession, and a highly contentious US presi...
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All About SPAC’s from 2020-12-08T14:50
Launching IPO’s using Special Purpose Acquisition Companys has shot upward in 2020. With both the number of SPAC’s and dollars invested m ore than tripling since 2019, and raising nearly half of al...
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Series A Checklist from 2020-12-01T14:43
In venture capital, Series A sits somewhere between startup seed capital and Series B fuel for significant growth. Following on from a previous episode ‘How to Get top Series A’, Gillian and Anne g...
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All About SPV’s from 2020-11-23T17:57:03
Anne and Gillian talk about Special Purpose Vehicles, funding mechanisms used often by VC funds to invest in companies they might not be able to otherwise, or on a different timeline from their usu...
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Women VC’s Rise Up from 2020-11-16T13:23:18
VC firms that increased their number of female partners by just 10% saw a 1.5% increase in ROI, plus 9.7% more profitable exits. So says a new report from Women in VC by founders Jessica Peltz and ...
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The Social Responsibilities of Venture Capital from 2020-11-02T14:22:13
Conventional VC has produced 20% of US GDP, on invested capital of less than a quarter percent of all investing. Yet, wealth gaps increased, while a global pandemic has invaded us and set the econo...
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Impact Investing&Global Wealth from 2020-10-13T04:00
Anne and Gillian continue their conversation about the effect of the Covid19 global pandemic on venture funding and the rise of ‘stakeholder capitalism’. The real movement they note is in ESG inves...
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Impact&Diversity Portfolios Trending Up from 2020-10-05T14:39:27
Gillian and Anne discuss reporting in Forbes magazine, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan that impact portfolios and diverse leadership get better returns than conventional ones. Impact investi...
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Changing Tides for VC’s&Women from 2020-09-28T11:42:02
Jenn Leblanc, the author of “Changing Tides: Powerful Strategies for Female Founders” and founder herself of the Changing Tides Movement, joins Gillian and Anne to talk about launching both the boo...
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Gender Lens Investing On the Rise from 2020-09-21T13:54:02
Anne & Gillian return to their root focus, gender lens investing, with an encouraging update based on Project Sage 3.0 from Wharton’s Social Impact Initiative, authored by its Managing Director San...
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Radical Collaboration Needed to Heal Black Wealth Gap from 2020-09-08T09:47:30
In their July 27 show, Anne & Gillian examined the role that venture capital can and should take in building Black wealth. Conventional VC has woefully underperformed -- Black entrepreneurs receiv...
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Why Investors Need Strong Boards from 2020-08-31T10:26:58
A strong board is votal, and weak or ineffectual board is a disaster for investors and entrepreneurs alike, says Julianne Zimmerman, Managing Director of Reinventure Capital. A veteran of many boar...
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Transparency&Due Diligence -- Where’s the Link? from 2020-08-24T12:49:35
This week Anne and Gillian talk with Joe Milam of Angelspan to track startup performance for better context for investor reporting, with less hyperbole and metrics that really matter. Angelspan ben...
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Structured Exit vs Venture Debt - What’s the Difference? from 2020-08-17T04:00:08
Continuing the discussion of Structured Exit funding vehicles, Gillian and Anne dive deeper into how this relatively new funding vehicle works for both investors and entrepreneurs, and how it diffe...
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Why Are Structured Exits Good for Founders, and Investors, too? from 2020-08-10T15:17:37
Structured exits mitigate investor risk for investors, while at the same time allowing access to upside results, says David Gitlin, an attorney at Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld. He has been champion...
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Matching Startups to the Right VCs from 2020-08-03T16:53:23
Finding the right VC for a startup is critical to building a lasting and productive relationship. Gillian and Anne detail how to determine your short list with highly focused research to discover w...
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Leveling the VC Playing Field for Black Founders from 2020-07-27T14:47:50
Anne and Gillian talk about Equity. Not the kind of equity that VCs purchase when they invest capital in a startup. The kind of LACK of equity in the field of venture capital and in society at larg...
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Even More VC 101 - Venture Capital Firm Org Charts from 2020-07-20T15:03:55
Gillian and Annee take a deep dive into the leadership structure of venture capital firms, starting with the most common organization charts. A confusing landscape for sure, because funds can write...
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More VC 101 for Angels from 2020-07-13T18:38:10
Gillian and Anne continue with explaining what angel investors can expect when they level up to investing in venture capital funds. It’s different, and there is lots of legal paperwork. Anne and Gi...
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VC 101 for Angels Leveling Up from 2020-07-06T14:51
What do first-time venture fund investors need to know? Investing in a VC fund is quite different from investing as an angel. Gillian and Anne discuss how VC works for investors, and what to expect...
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How to Get to Series A from 2020-06-29T04:00:13
There are three critical parts to success in getting to Series A funding from conventional VC’s. Gillian and Anne talk about finding the right VC for your growing company, how to prepare for talkin...
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Rethinking Startup Capitalization from 2020-06-22T18:14
After the past few episodes on equity funding, venture debt and structured exits, Gillian and Anne tie it all together by explaining how to use varied funding vehicles to build a better capitalizat...
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What are Structured Exits? from 2020-06-15T18:34
Structured exits were promoted as long ago as 2015 to angel investors as a path to earlier liquidity. What exactly does the term mean? Gillian and Anne explain how this not quite new concept could ...
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IRR - What’s That? from 2020-06-08T17:50:45
Do you find terms like ‘discounted cash flows’ and ‘net present value’ confusing, even mysterious? This episode is for you as Gillian helps Anne understand Internal Rate of Return, aka IRR, a term ...
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Valuation: Who Cares&Why? from 2020-06-01T04:00
In their continuing mission to clarify everything investors and entrepreneurs need to know about venture capital and how it works, Gillian and Anne unsnarl the confusing ways valuations are calcula...
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What is Venture Debt? from 2020-05-25T15:14:35
Continuing their new podcast about everything you -- an investor, advisor or entrepreneur -- need to know to best fund a startup, Anne and Gillian talk about venture debt, and why it makes a wiser ...
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The Real Cost of Equity Funding from 2020-05-18T15:00:50
Back for week two of their new VC Confidential, Gillian and Anne lay bare the pros and cons of funding your startup with conventional VC equity. For most entrepreneurs, there are more cons than pro...
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VC Confidential Premier Episode from 2020-05-11T19:41:46
Anne Kennedy & Gillian Muessig return to WMR with a new show all about everything they -- and you -- need to know about venture capital: what it’s best for, who gets it (and who should) and how it...
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