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Capital Conversations: Insights into the World of Venture Capital, is a podcast series produced by IMD and its Venture Asset Management Initiative. Exploring the dynamic realm of venture capital, where innovation meets investment, and ideas transform into thriving enterprises.
One company can return an entire fund, and suddenly your VC spreadsheet needs better questions.
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Seed-stage advice works best when trust, empathy, and the right messenger line up.
The episode looks at how a trusted venture capitalist stays useful after the money is wired. Sia Huchangya, a partner at Seedcamp, treats good advice as a mix of empathy, plainspoken feedback, and the judgment to know when a colleague or portfolio founder should carry the…
A clear guide to the liquidity pressure reshaping venture exits.
This episode centers on alternative exit routes for venture funds, but its sharper point is that VC liquidity now looks far more layered than the old IPO-or-M&A script.
Demetri Kofinas interviews specialists on geopolitics, energy markets, AI, and finance at length.
BBC's daily business show, from toy-industry founders to Anthropic's Pentagon standoff.
Jim Pulcrano interviews Rob Trice, founder of Better Food Ventures, about the realities of venture capital investing in agricultural technology.
Think first principles about strengths, weaknesses, and how to play to the founder's specific story
Liz Campbell, CIO at Portfolio Advisors, explores the evolving landscape of venture capital exit options, covering traditional routes like IPOs and M&A alongside emerging alternatives such as secondary markets, continuation vehicles, and NAV loans.
Capital Conversations features Michael Kim, founder of San Francisco-based Sandana Capital, explaining how institutional LPs evaluate emerging and first-time seed fund managers.
On Capital Conversations, David Clark, CIO at VenCap, explains why early TVPI and IRR can be poor predictors of final venture-fund performance during the first three to five years.
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