John Greenwood

The re-up rate for follow-on funds is now averaging 50 percent, posing a serious challenges for GPs about to hit the fundraising trail. What is the best strategy for fundraising success in this environment? Make sure to influence the LP influencers.

In the secondaries market, discounts are not predictors of performance.

The increasingly global nature of the venture capital businesses as well as the advantages and challenges Canada faces in developing its own VC ecosystem.

The re-up rate for follow-on funds is now averaging 50%, posing a serious challenges for GPs about to hit the fundraising trail. The best strategy for fundraising success in this environment is to influence the LP influencers.

In today’s fundraising market, there is “more confusion than ever” around private equity valuations, say three experts; hence, the cachet of solid cash-on-cash performance figures from GPs.

The third “new rule” of private equity fundraising can be summed up as: the fund as you know it will not be your next fund.

Part 2 of a series: why GPs must demonstrate value-add insight in order to win LP commitments in a new fundraising market.

Expect everything related to fundraising to be more difficult, say John Greenwood of Pantheon Ventures, Mounir Guen of MVision, and Russell Steenberg of BlackRock Private Equity Partners.

Private equity fundraising is undergoing fundamental change. Learn the “new rules,” and how to capitalize on them.