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What a GP commitment is, how large it is in venture capital, how GPs fund it, where it sits in the LPA, what the returns evidence says, how firms split it across partners and principals, and what to ask before you accept a role with carry.
Most closed VC deals start with a relationship. See where deals come from by stage, how to work each sourcing channel, which signals show up early, and how analysts run a weekly sourcing process.
Seed to Series A graduation rates by cohort from Carta and Crunchbase, how long the jump takes, why rates fell after 2021, why published figures disagree, and how seed and Series A firms use the rate for reserves, LP reporting, portfolio reviews and interviews.
A venture capital platform role runs a VC firm's non-investing services for founders: talent, business development, community, marketing, and investment operations. Median platform pay is $165,000 base and $207,500 total cash.
PitchBook, Crunchbase, CB Insights, Dealroom, Tracxn, Harmonic and Preqin compared by the VC task each one serves, with the free SEC filings that verify a record, a four-check round verification, student access limits and how database work reads in recruiting.
Venture capital due diligence is how a VC firm tests a startup before investing. The average deal takes 83 days to close and 118 hours of diligence. Process, checklist, red flags, and timing by stage.
Founder-market fit is the match between what a founding team knows, can access and cares about, and what its market demands. How VCs weigh it, test it with evidence, score it, and write it into a memo or interview answer.
Deal flow is the stream of investment opportunities a venture firm receives and the funnel that sorts them. For every deal closed, firms consider about 101 companies.
Non-consensus investing means backing a company most investors have passed on or not yet seen, for a reason you can state and test. How the 2x2 works, why firms drift toward consensus, how investment committees vote, and how analysts and associates bring a non-consensus deal.
A cap table records who owns a company's shares, options, warrants, and convertible securities, and what percentage each holder owns on a stated basis.
Pattern matching is how VCs judge new companies against past ones. When a pattern carries real information, when it is only a proxy, and how analysts and associates can use it well and talk about it in interviews.
A pay-to-play provision requires existing startup investors to join a future financing, usually pro rata, or lose protections such as anti-dilution rights or preferred-stock status.
