How Company Creation Funds Outperform Traditional Venture Capital with Sarah Anderson

Feb 28, 2024

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Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

Sarah's background in innovation and corporate partnerships (1:02)
Challenges with Corporate Partners and Innovation (5:06)
Strategic Corporate LPs and their Sustainability (7:23)
Recognizing a Different Business Model (9:54)
Insider Segment: The Role of SPVs and Opportunity Funds (15:56)
Venture studio landscape (17:57)
Advantages of company creation (19:12)
Criteria for Selecting Fund Managers (22:09)
Backed funds and their qualities (23:56)
Mistakes in company creation (26:37)
Gender disparities in company creation (32:09)
Benchmarking founder worth (35:11)
Early exits and company creation (36:02)
High potential asset class (38:27)
Final thoughts and takeaways (39:14)

Vault Fund was founded in 2021 and invests exclusively in company creation entities (“company creators”), otherwise known as venture studios. Vault defines a company creator as an entity that serves as the founder or co-founder across their portfolio. Investing in this space since 2015, the leaders of Vault Fund strongly believe that company creation funds have business model advantages to scale innovation and build high quality, resilient companies that create portfolio level alpha more efficiently. Learn more at www.vaultfund.com.

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