🗒️ How Emerging Managers Can Stand Out In 2022
Crunchbase: Last year showed an abundance of interest in emerging managers. In a recent survey of more than 50 institutional investors, 62 percent responded that the risk and return profile for EMs is attractive relative to established firms.
🗒️ Bain Capital Ventures launches $560M fund as investment in crypto space soars
Insider Intelligence: Startup investment firm Bain Capital Ventures launched a $560 million fund focused exclusively on crypto projects, per Bloomberg.
The long-term-oriented fund will invest in around 30 undisclosed crypto-related companies over several years.
🗒️ Ford Foundation, Visa Foundation, and Fairview Capital Join Forces to Invest In Diverse Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms
Business Wire: The Ford Foundation, Visa Foundation, and Fairview Capital today announced a partnership and expanded financial commitment to the Fairview Foundations Emerging Managers Fund which invests in funds and direct co-investments backed by diverse and women-owned venture capital and private equity firms.
🗒️ Why the CEO of Aha! rejected the venture capital model and thinks more founders should do the same
Fortune: Investment inquiries come frequently for Brian de Haaff. Venture capitalists, private equity firms, family offices—you name it. “I get notes daily,” he tells me.