Meet the Expert: Braughm Ricke of Aduro Advisors on working with over 300 Emerging Firms, his time as the first CFO at True Ventures, traits of successful managers

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In today’s show, we have the pleasure of speaking to Braughm Ricke, who has worked closely with emerging managers throughout his career, first serving as CFO of True Ventures, and then starting Aduro Advisors, which started in 2012 originally to focus on the new era of VC. He was also a early Advisor and Investor in Carta and has been an active investor.

Thanks to working with over 350 venture fund clients, Braughm has unique insights on effective fundraising, what makes for a institutional back-office, and broad venture trends.

In this episode we discuss:

01:01    What Braughm saw in 2012 when he started Aduro Advisors to focus on Emerging VC’s

05:49    How the emerging manager space has grown and evolved

06:42    What is different today from the early days

08:49    The fundraising landscape for emerging managers

11:49    Tactics for breaking into family offices

13:51    What managers often need to do between rounds

16:19    The workload for solo GPs

18:12    The support systems GPs need so they can spend more time on core activities

22:56    Common traits amongst successful managers

25:22    The most common mistakes he sees managers make

26:45    What the future holds for venture

29:55    The speed of new firm creation

Mentioned in this episode:

* Aduro Advisors

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