📶 SEC makes life a little easier for smaller VCs

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Good morning. Usually, when we hear news about the SEC, we assume it’s negative. So we were pleasantly surprised yesterday when the SEC updated the dollar threshold for a vehicle to be considered a “qualifying venture fund” to $12 million, up from $10 million.

Qualified venture funds can raise from up to 250 accredited investors while also being exempt from having to register with the SEC as an investment company. Without getting into too much of the details, it’s a big win for emerging managers and first-time funds.

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TL;DR:

• 📰 News

• 🔗 Links

• 🐥 Tweet

• 💰 Funds

• ™️ Startups

• 📶 Recs

• 🗳 Poll

HEADLINES
SEC changes rules for “qualified venture funds”

• The SEC just made life a little easier for smaller VCs (TechCrunch)

• AI Regulation Is Coming. Fortune 500 Companies Are Bracing for Impact. (WSJ)

• The IPO Market Gets Cold Feet (WSJ)

• Corporate Funding Rounds Account For Larger Share Of Venture Investment (Crunchbase)

• Data Infrastructure Startup Cribl Locks Up $319M At $3.5B Valuation (Crunchbase)

• Gaming Market Map: Investors bet on gaming’s next hitmakers (Pitchbook)

LINKS

📖 The Elon Musk Playbook: The Generalist examines the management principles of the world’s most productive and polarizing person

💯 The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps: Andreessen Horowitz brings their 3rd installment of the top apps

👨‍🎨 The Ultimate Guide to Growth Product Design: Askash Gupta covers everything you need to know about product design’s new, but growing, subfield of growth product design

🚀 The Emerging Manager’s Guide—How to Plan Your Fund I: AngelList brings insights and lessons learned from emerging managers on launching their first venture fund

👀 See New Marketplaces Where Others See Crowds—The Inside Story of A. Team: New marketplaces can break out by uniquely innovating on product, demand, and supply

🆓 Founder Restricted Stock Agreement: Pillar.VC offers a free template

📶 Mastering Your VC Career Path: Early Choices and Their Empowering Impact

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FUNDS

Explore all new funds (along with contact info) 👉 here.

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POLL

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RESULTS

Here are the results from our poll question in yesterday’s piece:

Is it a good or bad thing that PE is going after the NFL and other pro sports teams?

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ Good - I expect a better fan experience (18)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Bad - I'm expecting more ads, higher prices at games, and a worse fan experience (19)

37 Votes