The entire point of Decile Group is to help power emerging VCs who break the mold. The types of managers who don’t fit the stereotype of the VC with the…

Roger Luo May Have the One Degree AI Has Made More Valuable Every day there are panicked articles about the carnage on white-collar jobs that AI is wreaking. How AI has destroyed…

Close your eyes and picture an AI founder who built three startups, had substantial exits, and has just launched a new venture fund specializing in vertical AI. Keep your eyes closed….

Anthony Atlas has a minor planet named after him. Asteroid number something or other, orbiting out there in the black. He won first place at the International Science Fair in…

Are sector specialists indeed outperforming generalist funds? For much of venture capital’s history, many funds launched with broad mandates. Generalist investors deployed capital across industries and stages, relying on network access…

The Venture Trends survey of 163 emerging venture capital managers reveals a clear takeaway for Q2 2026: venture is moving deeper into the agentic AI era. Across 464 total recorded votes,…

The most overlooked source of LP capital might already be in your investors’ retirement accounts. If you’re an emerging fund manager, you know the fundraising grind. You’ve pitched family offices that…

The traditional retirement playbook is showing its age. Here’s how self-directed IRAs are giving investors access to a broader universe of opportunity. For most investors, retirement planning follows a familiar script:…

Your retirement account could be your ticket into the fastest-growing segment of private markets. Venture capital has long been considered the domain of institutions and ultra-wealthy individuals, the kind of asset…

You’ve done the work. Cleaned up Fund I. Built your data room. Refined your thesis. Practiced your pitch. And then you’re sitting across from an LP, and they ask a question…

Teel Lidow recently wrote a thorough breakdown of the different fund admins available to emerging managers with funds under $100M. It’s worth reading. But while he covered a lot of ground…

Fund I fundraising was about conviction. Your story. Your thesis. Your background. LPs were betting on potential. Fund II is different. Now they want evidence. And the evidence is your Fund I. Here’s…

It’s Probably Not Your Returns Most emerging managers think they lose LP meetings because of their track record. The returns weren’t strong enough. The portfolio is too early. The DPI isn’t there…

107 votes in. The picture is getting clearer and stranger. When we launched this survey, we expected the usual AI consensus. What we got instead is a community holding two…

Andrew D’Souza didn’t just build an AI that connects founders to investors. He built one that became an investor itself. On March 19, the Boardy CEO headlines Venture Trailblazers to…

This is the best time in history to launch a specialist venture capital fund. Launch a venture capital fund built on your domain expertise through VC Lab Cohort 21. Our data…