How venture capital funds make money: why one big win pays for all the startups that fail
Who really wins in venture capital: how a fund pays back its investors
After ten years, a venture capital fund has sold or closed every startup it backed. Now it adds up the result. How much goes to the venture capitalist, how much to the investors, and did they beat the stock market?
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Ten years have passed, and the fund is at its end. Here is what Miva's 20 startups brought back. Eleven closed. Seven sold small, the meal app among them. Yours brought back $12 million.
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And one, the startup that plans the shifts of nurses in hospitals, brought back $210 million. On its own, it brought back more than the other 19 together.
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