Elizabeth "Beezer" Clarkson

I wish I could write as well as Charles Hudson - 🙏 for talking about the 'second desert in venture capital'. It is much harder than people think to go from Fund IV - VIII or as Charles says... "no ...

When we were building Sapphire Partners in the early days, Alan Feld was incredibly generous with his time, perspective, and support… the kind you don’t forget. 🙏 As a venture legend, Alan has be...

Honored to be included in this impressive group of LinkedIn Top Voices, and especially proud to represent the LP perspective in this cohort. When I started my career 20+ years ago, the LP corner o...

Wow - that's a lot of opportunities for VCs and LPs to find each other...👇 🙏 Pavel Prata for collecting this list

AI not only dominated venture in 2025… it rewired how we think about building, investing, and scaling. As we head into a new year, one thing is clear: AI is still “eating the world.” Nicholas Chi...

ICYMI: Re-sharing Dan Gray's badass survey on the state of fundraising👇. He puts data behind how the current fundraising low wasn't just a "hard year" for smaller funds, but a structural shift in...

Fund size is your strategy. You hear it all the time because it's true, and Micah Rosenbloom and the team at Founder Collective demonstrate the art and the super power of this. Five funds and twent...

Early-stage venture has never felt more crowded. On an absolute basis, there are more firms in the market today than at any point in the industry’s history — and with AI driving a new wave of innov...

Is today's venture market healthy? “The highest order way I think about it is: ‘Is there opportunity?’ Is there opportunity for high impact, high growth, high scale businesses being born right now...

ICYMI: PitchBook’s latest secondary market report is out, and it shows record deal flow: $95B in estimated annual value across direct secondaries and continuation funds. While a viable liquidity p...

Wow. 🧑‍🏫 A masterclass on the future of global finance from a crypto savant who bet big on Solana and ironically… has zero interest in bitcoin. New Origins with Kyle Samani, Managing Partner of Mul...

this one hits hard, in good ways. 🙏 David Zhou https://lnkd.in/g7Cu4ceM

Sarah Tavel’s career—from first female  GP at Benchmarkto now fully devoting herself to AI—has been defined by deep intellectual rigor and first-principles thinking. Her curiosity, discernment, and...

Every major platform shift rewrites the playbook for founders and investors. Sarah Tavel saw it during the rise of mobile — and now knows that to truly excel in a new era, you can’t just observe fr...

We’re seeing echoes of 2021 in today’s market. On the new Origins Minisode, Nicholas Chirls and I unpacked a conversation with Alex Edelson at Slipstream Investors and what struck me most is that ...

Mega-funds are arriving earlier than ever, but the leaderboards of who is leading rounds at Seed & Series A tell a nuanced story. We’ve got the top 10 players in the charts below. Boutique sta...

Important reminder that track records only tell part of the story. As Alex Edelson noted, a 5–10 year-old return profile may not predict future performance if fund size or strategy has changed. Ch...

David Zhou is out with a new podcast format - El Pack - super fun to be on and discuss what's changing in venture and what remains the same with Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Stephanie Palme...

As an investor who made the transition from GP to LP, I’ve always believed that having seen inside the shop is a real advantage in backing managers. Our latest Origins guest, Alex Edelson, former Q...

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