VC Lab Blog
Strategies, playbooks, and stories from emerging fund managers, LPs, and the broader venture ecosystem.
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August 10, 2026
LP Pitch Deck Templates: What Actually Goes in a Fund Deck That Closes Commitments
A slide-by-slide breakdown of what LPs actually read in a fund pitch deck, based on hundreds of real raises through VC Lab's accelerator program.
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August 10, 2026
First-Time Fund Manager: The Practical Guide to Launching Your First VC Fund
Becoming a first-time fund manager is more achievable than most people think, but it requires a clear thesis, the right structure, and a realistic plan for reaching first close. This guide covers everything you need to know.
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August 10, 2026
VC Statistics That Actually Matter to Emerging Managers
Generic venture capital statistics won't help you launch a fund. Here's what the numbers actually look like for emerging managers, drawn from real fund formation data.
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August 10, 2026
Venture Capital Treasury Management: A Practical Guide for First-Time Fund Managers
Venture capital treasury management isn't a product you buy. It's four decisions every emerging GP must make the moment capital starts sitting in a fund account between calls.
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August 10, 2026
Top Decile Podcast: Galit Flasterstein
How a Costa Rican founder turned a decade of travel-industry networking into Danta Fund, a pre-seed fund backing Latin America's most underfunded ag, bio, and climate-tech founders.
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August 10, 2026
Top Decile Podcast: Rob Mihalko
Rob Mihalko grew Ariba Network from zero to $400 million, then spent a career inside the marketplaces that quietly move trillions. Now Spectus Ventures backs the next generation of marketplace founders at seed.
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August 10, 2026
Top Decile Podcast: Navneet Kaur
After a decade building brands and communities in consumer health, Navneet Kaur is launching TechThrive Ventures to back the founders reinventing women's health, wellness, and longevity.
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August 8, 2026
Top Decile Podcast: Tahnoon Murtza
Tahnoon Murtza has spent his life inside the rooms where celebrity-founded consumer brands get built, and Grey Sheep Ventures turns that access into a pre-seed and seed fund across the US and Canada.
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July 29, 2026
Top Decile Podcast: Anthony Atlas
Anthony Atlas built Science Fair Fund on a single data-backed insight: the teenagers who win the world's most rigorous science competitions go on to found unicorns at three times the Y Combinator baseline rate, and almost no one is watching them.
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July 28, 2026
Top Decile Podcast: Lorenzo de Leo
After 15 years building 40-plus startups across two continents, Lorenzo de Leo launched ENYA Ventures to reach Latin America's best AI-first founders at pre-seed, before US capital ever notices them.
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July 28, 2026
The Best Venture Capital AI Tools for Emerging Fund Managers
A practical guide to the venture capital AI tools worth your time in 2026, organized by fund lifecycle stage, with honest comparisons and clear recommendations for lean teams.
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July 28, 2026
Why Emerging Fund Managers Are Turning to All-in-One VC Platforms
Managing a venture fund means juggling deal flow, LP relations, compliance, and portfolio tracking. An all-in-one VC platform brings those pieces together so you can focus on investing.
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July 28, 2026
How to Raise a Venture Fund Quickly: A Practical Guide for Emerging Managers
Raising a venture fund fast is possible, but only if you build the right foundation before you ever talk to an LP. Here is what actually moves the process forward.
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July 28, 2026
How to Launch a VC Firm in 2026: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide
Thinking about how to launch a VC firm? This guide walks you through every stage, from thesis development and entity formation to LP fundraising and deal flow, with practical advice for 2026.
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July 23, 2026
34 Emerging Venture Capital Funds to Invest In Live on Decile Access
Browse 34 vetted emerging venture capital funds raising now on Decile Access. Fund sizes, investment leads, sectors, and LP minimums from $25K, all in one guide.
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July 23, 2026
Ankur Shrivastava
Ankur Shrivastava spent his first 30 months at Momentum Capital making just six investments. Then he found alignment and sharpened his climate tech thesis. Fifteen months and 23 portfolio companies later, Fund I is nearly deployed.
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July 21, 2026
Venture Capital Roles
AI has compressed junior VC roles and changed what the industry values. Here is a clear map of who does what in 2026 and where the real entry points are.
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July 10, 2026
First VC Fund Fundraising Statistics Unpacked
A statistics-driven guide to first VC fund fundraising, covering what the data shows about early traction, first close success, fund size performance, and how team profile relates to fundraising outcomes.
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July 10, 2026
Generalist vs Specialist VC Data Unpacked
A data-driven look at specialist vs generalist VC funds, covering how the two strategies compare in structure, demographics, and fundraising performance, and what the shift toward specialization means for emerging managers today.
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July 8, 2026
How Generationship Closed Fund I: Rachel Chalmers and Michelle Yi
Rachel Chalmers and Michelle Yi closed Generationship Fund I oversubscribed at $2.7M with 62 operator LPs, 13 portfolio companies, and a 4x markup already on the books.
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July 7, 2026
Top Decile Podcast: Jorden Woods and Radhika Iyengar
In 2019, Jorden Woods and Radhika Iyengar wrote a book predicting AI and blockchain would converge into something nobody in venture was ready for. Six years later, they launched StarChain Ventures to invest in it. Here's the case study.
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July 7, 2026
Top Decile Podcast: JP Keating
JP Keating spent 25 years inside the world's most complex supply chains at Boeing, Anheuser-Busch, and Allstate. Now he's running ProChain Ventures, a pre-seed and seed fund built to back the operators rebuilding the logistics layer underneath American reindustrialization.
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July 7, 2026
Fund Close Success Stories: How Emerging Managers Closed Fund I
Real fund close success stories from emerging managers who closed Fund I. See the LP, thesis, and timing patterns you can copy in your own raise.
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July 7, 2026
Venture Capital Transparency: What LPs Expect From Fund Managers
Venture capital transparency is how LPs screen emerging managers before they invest. See what it covers and how top funds deliver it from the first close.
