VenCap International plc

VenCap International plc

Oxford, United KingdomEst. 198727 employeeswww.vencap.com
$1.90B AUM
private equitysecondaryfund of funds
Our mission at VenCap is to build a concentrated portfolio of venture funds from those VCs that consistently back the top 1% of companies and deliver strong and consistent performance to our investors. VenCap has committed USD 2.9 billion to this small group of top-tier VC’s in the US, Europe, China and India - our Core Managers. We work closely with the venture firms with whom we invest to provide insight and analytics that help inform their own decisions. We believe that this focus gives us a competitive advantage when it comes to identifying and accessing the best firms in the industry. VenCap was founded in 1987, and as such we are one of the longest-established investment management and advisory firms active in the VC industry today. We believe that venture capital is a long-term business that is based on strong personal relationships. We have been trusted to manage capital by many leading institutions and family offices across the world with whom we have developed strong and lasting relationships based on trust, transparency and authenticity. More information on our website: https://www.vencap.com/

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Strategies

StrategySecondary
Over the nearly four decades that VenCap has been investing in venture capital funds, it has identified three key characteristics of the venture capital market that have shaped its secondary investment strategy: • The bulk of the value created by the venture capital industry comes from a small number of companies (the power law distribution of returns). Access to these companies at attractive pricing is what drives secondary returns. • There is a concentrated group of venture capital firms that have consistently backed these companies and have shown a relatively high persistence of performance across multiple funds. Manager quality is an extremely important consideration when evaluating secondary opportunities. • Optical discounts vs. NAV are not a reliable predictor of realised cash-on-cash returns in VC secondaries: - The majority of VC-backed companies fail to return capital and the top 1% of exits account for the majority of the exit value for the entire VC industry. - There is large variation in valuation marks across VC funds for the same company. - Last Round Value is a lagging indicator which can be a risk or an opportunity for a secondary buyer. - Typically, higher quality VC firms have more conservative valuation policies.
StrategyFund of Funds
Primary and secondary investments in early stage and venture growth funds raised by top-tier VC firms globally Minimum of 75% of commitments to Core Manager funds

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