“When you're seeding a firm, you're predominantly providing anchor LP capital to help solve the cold start problem… you give confidence to the marketplace that you're a going concern.”

How I Invest with David Weisburd · E437: Doug Beyer on Raising Capital, LP Psychology & GP Stakes

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provide seed/anchor capital to emerging GP firms to solve the cold-start problem and enable a material first close

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“In exchange, you can have fee concessions… you're really taking that stake in exchange for providing material LP capital.”
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