Crisis? 3 Ways VCs Adapt

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There is a global crisis going on as I write this article. It’s not the first, it won’t be the last. A lot has been written about how startups should manage themselves in a crisis but few discuss how VCs adapt to changing times. Which is what this post will do, focusing on the three major areas that VCs are active in. 1) Fundraising Given that a typical venture fund is for 10 years, chances are it will face at least one major crisis. Also the time horizon is also long enough that the effects of economic cycles are somewhat…...

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Amit Garg I have been in Silicon Valley for 20 years -- at Samsung NEXT Ventures, running my own startup (as of May 2019 a series D that has raised $120M and valued at $450M), at Norwest Ventures, and doing product and analytics at Google. My academic training is BS in computer science and MS in biomedical informatics, both from Stanford, and MBA from Harvard. I speak natively 3 languages, live carbon-neutral, am a 70.3 Ironman finisher, and have built a hospital in rural India serving 100,000 people.