Paige Doherty built Behind Genius Ventures' LP roster by recruiting women GPs she admired, including Heather Harnett, Jenny Lefcourt, and Katie Stanton, plus established firms like USV. Raising $5 million without a track record meant finding investors who could lend credibility and mentorship.
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How did I create my dream list of LPs? Who's on it? I think there's, there's a lot of like women GPs who I really looked up to. So like Heather Harnett from Human, Jenny Lefcourt from Freestyle, Katie Stanton at Moxie, um, all of whom are LPs in our Fund 1, and that I feel like incredibly lucky to have them on board. And then there are also a lot of GPs who had built like multi-billion dollar firms. So that's folks like Johnny Seindorf at Distributed Global. Andy Wiseman at USV was probably like the first person that like truly made me feel accepted in venture. So shout out Andy. Thank you for always reading my writing and asking such amazing questions. But I think like at the end of the day, like we were trying to raise $5 million without a track record, you know, it was kind of like we were building a list of folks who we thought would be super helpful.