Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

exploring investment practices: insights from institutional investors

25 May 2023 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker reflects on recent interactions with institutional fund‑of‑fund managers and general partners (GPs), emphasizing the value of stepping outside their comfort zone to learn directly from seasoned investors. They express excitement about upcoming meetings with additional investors and GPs to further explore investing practices. The core takeaways highlighted from institutional investors when evaluating emerging fund managers are twofold: first, the importance of a strong alignment—or "gel"—between a manager’s background and their investment strategy; second, the emphasis on the graduation rate of portfolio companies, tracking their progression from pre‑seed to seed and from seed to Series A, as a key performance indicator.

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When you're talking about like institutional fund-to-fund managers and GPs, I think it was really cool to have that experience of just getting out of our comfort zone. I'm going to be meeting with other investors and GPs and hearing more about their investing practices, so I'm really excited about that. Some of the biggest takeaways that I heard from institutional investors when they're evaluating emerging fund managers is how a background and strategy of a fund manager gel and how thoughtfully that's Vade looked at like the graduation rate of companies from pre-seed to seed, seed to Series A.