The current venture market is fraught: investors have funnelled billions of euros into startups in recent years, but amid a drought of exits, VCs aren’t cashing out on their investments — and neither are their own investors.
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January 23, 2024
‘People will be running out of choice’: One VC is launching a new $100m fund to take advantage of secondaries in growth companies
The firm, which says it’s closed $25m of its $100m target so far, is betting on a booming secondaries market as VCs look for exits
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