VC Lab Blog
Strategies, playbooks, and stories from emerging fund managers, LPs, and the broader venture ecosystem.
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May 7, 2026
Signaling Ethical Intent in Emerging VC
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May 7, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Gender Archives - VC Lab
Updated February 25th, 2026 VC Lab has a set of benchmarks and incentives to change the face of venture capital. The Project 50-50 was started in May of 2022 to ensure that there is an equal number of women working as peers to men in the global venture capital market. The initiat
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May 7, 2026
Resources Archives - Page 2 of 7 - VC Lab
Free content, documents, curricula and other resources to help you get started in venture capital.
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May 7, 2026
Dr. Michail Michailow - VC Lab
What actually separates funds that close from those that don’t? Reaching a first close is one of the most critical milestones for emerging venture funds. It signals early validation from LPs and creates the momentum needed to move from fundraising into active investing. Yet, many
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May 7, 2026
Venture Capital Research Archives - VC Lab
What actually separates funds that close from those that don’t? Reaching a first close is one of the most critical milestones for emerging venture funds. It signals early validation from LPs and creates the momentum needed to move from fundraising into active investing. Yet, many
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May 7, 2026
Venture Capital Legal Templates Archives - VC Lab
Agreements, documents and resources for the venture capital industry.
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May 7, 2026
VC Lab Programs Archives - VC Lab
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 the problem: Fund I wasn’t built for this level of scrutiny. Most emerging manag
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May 7, 2026
Limited Partners Archives - VC Lab
The Hidden Work of Running a Fund You closed your fund. Congratulations. That was the hard part. Now comes the ongoing work that nobody talks about: compliance. Every year, your Delaware fund structure requires a series of filings across multiple government systems. The SEC uses
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May 7, 2026
Modeling Archives - VC Lab
Even quantitatively-minded first-time GPs can find modeling a challenge because venture capital models are often quite different from the models you may be familiar with. There are also some similarities and basic differences that we can leverage to get a running start. Build Ove
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May 7, 2026
Venture Capital Trends Archives - VC Lab
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 strongest signal by far was Autonomous Agents, which captured 14.7% of all votes, making
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May 7, 2026
Insights Archives - Page 11 of 14 - VC Lab
Watch our interview with Steve Jurvetson, who has been supporting transformative businesses for over 25 years as an early investor with the likes of SpaceX, Tesla, Planet, and UPSIDE Foods; and as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship (appointed by President Barac
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May 7, 2026
Decile Group - VC Lab
The counterintuitive discipline that turned an 18-month Fund I into a 30-day Fund II close. The Desperate Phase Raoul Felix Maier was raising Fund I with no institutional backing and no spinout pedigree. Every check mattered. Every dollar counted. This is the reality for nearly e
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May 7, 2026
Adeo Ressi - VC Lab
Adeo Ressi is CEO of Decile Group, powering the next generation of venture capital firms worldwide with an integrated offering of training, tools, and capital. Adeo has launched 14 venture capital funds and founded 11 startups, having nearly $2 billion in exits before 30.
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May 7, 2026
Venture Legal Archives - VC Lab
Download Cornerstone v3 The Cornerstone LPA, the easy-to-use limited partner agreement for venture capital funds, has been upgraded to Version 3. Version 3 of the Cornerstone LPA incorporates the latest SEC regulation changes and supports both American and European waterfall stru
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May 7, 2026
Startuply.vc: The AI Tool That Profiles Any Startup in Minutes (1,000+ Companies in 6 Days)
Decile Group just launched Startuply.vc, an AI research platform that writes venture-ready profiles on any startup in a few minutes. Over 1,000 startup profiles in the first six days.
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April 21, 2026
Surviving Fund II: What Nobody Tells You
What emerging managers need to know to survive Fund II: LP trust, portfolio construction changes, and the path to institutional fundraising. A real story from Fund I to Fund III.
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April 21, 2026
Why You Should Turn Down LP Money
The counterintuitive discipline every emerging manager needs to learn: how curating your Fund I LP base is the highest-return investment you can make in Fund II.
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April 21, 2026
The Proven Leader Framework: What VCs Actually Look For
Why serial entrepreneurship is overrated and what actually predicts founder success. The two-part framework a VC developed after studying leadership across 3,000 years of history.
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April 21, 2026
The Trust Equation: How to Keep LPs Through a Downturn
The LP trust framework that helped one emerging manager raise Fund II in 30 days after an 18-month Fund I. Credibility, reliability, openness, and why self-orientation is the trust killer.
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April 21, 2026
Portfolio Construction: What Changes Between Fund I and Fund II
Four portfolio construction changes an emerging manager made from Fund I to Fund II: fewer companies, less reserves, narrower sector, broader stage. Why Fund II should be a redesign, not a scale-up.
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April 21, 2026
AI in VC: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Venture Capital
AI in VC has moved from an experiment on the margins of venture capital to the operating foundation of the most effective emerging managers.
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April 21, 2026
Agentic VC: Leading the AI Revolution in Venture Capital
Agentic VC is changing what it means to run a venture capital fund in 2026.
