E90: Lessons from Diligencing 3,000 Venture Capital Funds

Marius Weber, Founding Partner, and Jocke Martelius, Investment Solutions Manager of Alpha Q Venture Capital sits down with David Weisburd to discuss the comparison between US and European VC markets, strategies for conducting due diligence on emerging VC funds, and the impact of political and economic factors on European VC. The 10X Capital Podcast is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: turpentine.co -- X / Twitter: @dweisburd (David Weisburd) @alphaqvc (Alpha Q Venture Capital) -- LinkedIn: Marius Weber: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariusweberaqvc/ Jocke Martelius: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocke-martelius-6226035a/ Alpha Q Venture Capital: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aqvc/ David Weisburd: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dweisburd/ -- LINKS: Alpha Q Venture Capital: https://www.aqvc.com/ -- Questions or topics you want us to discuss on The 10X Capital Podcast? Email us at david@10xcapital.com (0:00) Episode Preview (1:00) Founding and background of AQVC (4:05) Benchmarking, quantitative and qualitative fund evaluation (8:18) Data standardization and capital formation challenges (10:55) Evolution and best practices in fundraising communication (17:27) Maintaining LP relationships (23:59) Insights from diligence of impact funds (26:07) Timeframe and economics for GPs to achieve wealth (28:12) Product differences for high net worth and family office network (32:31) AQVC's value to GPs (35:47) Constraints in the European VC ecosystem (36:51) Closing remarks