I see. That makes sense. But is there some sort of analysis/blog to show what is the concentration of institutional investors in VC? I can only find figures about total VC funding which seems to be around $200B over the last 4 years. I have a hard time believing more than 30% of that is private money, thus starting this thread.
It sure is! There are not more than 8-10 partners in a large fund, smaller ones ($200-400m) have no more than 3-4 partners. The most typical structure is 20/2.5 which means that 20 % of the exit pay off from a company and 2.5 % of the fund size are pocketed by the VCs. I learnt this from a talk with an Indian VC who had a prior experience of running funds in US as well. Hope it answers your query!
I also wonder where these figures came from: "Computer hardware and software, semiconductors, communication, and biotechnology account for 81 percent of all venture capital dollars, and 72 percent of the companies that got VC money over the past 15 or so years."
I see a lot of these types of statistics in articles about startup financing. As far as I know, there's no publicly available database of VC transactions.
Anyone know where these numbers could be coming from?
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