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

What is the origin story of Screendoor Partners?

7 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief interview, Speaker B explains that Screendoor Partners (often referred to as Screen Door) is a two‑year‑old fund‑of‑funds dedicated to backing underrepresented, emerging venture‑capital fund managers. The firm targets first‑ or second‑time institutional VC funds in the United States with typical fund sizes between $10 million and $100 million, positioning itself as an anchor and long‑term capital partner. The origin story traces back to a coalition of roughly ten general partners from existing VC firms—most notably Satya Patel and Hunter Wach of Homebrew—who, together with peers from Precursor Ventures, Kindred, Forerunner, Cowboy Ventures, FICA, and others, created a pooled vehicle to provide capital to VCs that reflect their own backgrounds and perspectives.

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Can you explain a little bit more about what Screen Door is and how it came to be?
Of course. Screen Door, we've been around coming up on 2 years. We are a fund of funds that is backing underrepresented emerging fund managers in venture capital. So generally folks who are raising their first or second institutional fund, generally smaller funds in the range of $10 to $100 million, kind of right now based in the US. And we aspire and aim to be anchor capital for those funds and durable capital partners over the long term. The origin story is that 10 GPs from existing firms came together to form the vehicle. Probably most credit goes to the GPs at Homebrew, Satya Patel and Hunter Wach. They gathered together with 10 of their, or 8 of their other peers from firms like Precursor Ventures, Kindred, Forerunner, Cowboy Ventures, FICA, to name a few, and wanted a a pool or a pool of capital that could capitalize other VCs that looked more like them.