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

here’s my first take on explaining venture capital.

5 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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A venture capitalist explains how capital calls work: money flows from a VC fund to startup founders in exchange for equity, held through a limited partnership structure where wealthy individuals and institutions invest for diversified startup exposure. She also breaks down typical VC team roles from general partners down to analysts.

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Ooh, okay. I like that. Riley, what? I like that. Okay, hi Rebecca. So these— this I think is like one of the most important concepts of venture. So this is what's called a capital call, but it's basically how money gets transferred from venture capitalists to startup founders. So as you can see here, there, there's a founder and they exchange money for equity. They're The venture capitalist gets the equity in a limited partnership, which is the structure of a venture capital fund. So as you can see here, there's limited partners who may be high net worth individuals or institutions that are interested in investing in the venture capital fund so that they can get diversified access to startups. This is an example of what a venture capital team might look like. You might have the general partners and then principals, vice presidents, associates, and analysts. So this is more like the investment side of the team. You can also have other Roll.