Mark Boslet

As you would expect, Tim Bliamptis, a co-founder and managing director at fund of funds Weathergage Capital, is no stranger to venture capital. He was early to the micro VC phenomenon of recent years and is convinced this year may see an uptick in venture liquidity through acquisitions. He also has an open mind to […]

A fund from the Column Group has risen to the top of a solidly performing portfolio of small and mid-tier venture funds at the University of California. The mid-decade portfolio is made up of funds with vintages of 2003 to 2006 and is evenly split between early and later-stage strategies. Also included are two fund […]

Three small secondary purchases top a portfolio of late-vintage growth funds at Hawaii Employees’ Retirement System, though funds from Summit Partners and Abraaj Capital also stand out. The portfolio of funds from vintages 2011 to 2016 is weighted toward large pools of capital. More than half the 10 funds are $1 billion or larger, and […]

A 2005 fund from JMI Equity is at the top of a portfolio of late-decade growth funds at the Hawaii Employees’ Retirement System by a mile. The portfolio of vintage 2004 to 2010 funds is weighted toward large funds. Seven are a billion dollars or larger, in several cases much larger. Included is TA Associates’ 11th […]

A 2008 fund from Aisling Capital sits on top of a venture portfolio of mid-life and newly minted funds at the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System, according to a recent performance report. The portfolio favors mid-sized funds with a multi-stage approach to investing. All but three of the funds fall between $350 million and […]

A 2007 fund from Tenaya Capital leads a mid-decade venture portfolio at the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System. The portfolio is an unusual mix of mid-sized and smaller funds favoring a later or multi-stage approach to investing. Only one fund is above $1 billion, and that fund invests in secondaries. The remaining 10 funds […]

A 2012 Canaan Partners fund is firmly in front of a generally well-performing early-decade venture portfolio at Hawaii Employees’ Retirement System. The portfolio of vintage 2011 to 2015 funds includes several of the best performing fund years of the past decade-and-a-half. And it reflects these better times. All but two of the still young funds have […]

A pair of tiny secondary purchases leads a late-decade portfolio at Hawaii Employees’ Retirement System, but three Battery Ventures funds are the ones that shine. The portfolio of 10 venture funds with vintages of 2007 to 2010 has done remarkably well overall. All but two of the funds had IRRs in the double digits as […]

A maturing portfolio of near end-of-life funds at the Hawaii Employees’ Retirement System has felt the retrenchment of the past 1½ years, but Canaan Partners’ seventh fund remains on top. All but two of the funds in the portfolio saw their performance pull back in the nine quarters ended March 2016, according to a recent […]

Examine vintage-year fund returns from industry monitor Cambridge Associates and several things stand out: First, vintage-year performance for venture funds began climbing in 2007 and has remained solid since. Second, prior to 2007 and dating back to the end of the dot-com boom, pooled performance did the opposite: It sagged and remained low. Such is […]