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Venture Capital Investment Memo Collection

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Want to learn about venture capital investment memos? Well, there is a collection to read, but here you can find some supporting reading. I have to feed the nerd in you.

VC Investment Memo Collection
Venture Capital Investment Memo Collection

If you are a startup and venture capital nerd, you have a list of cool things you’d love to know about. The problem is that particularly on the VC side very little is shared. Whether it is startups sharing pitch decks, or VCs sharing investment memos or their thesis, everyone deep down is shy. They’re worried about being judged. Frankly, it’s easier to look smart by writing a few lines in a Tweetstorm than sharing your analysis.

There’s more of course. Larger firms are just that. No one can just share something, they need to get approval from the committee and there are more than a few Dilbert comic opportunities there. So taken by the general fear of sharing, it takes someone special to push through to share their ‘soul’.

I’ve been able to find 32 investment memos in total to date. I use that term broadly as a few of them are just commentaries on excerpts of their investment memo. Given the dearth of investment memos, I’ve tried to share as much as possible.

Why aren’t there more memos? Michael Dempsey tweeted this:

IMO VCs on average don’t share (and you know I’ve tried) because it’s a lot easier/safer to sound smart in 3 talking points than it is in a well reasoned memo that recognizes downside possibility and leaves you vulnerable.

Interestingly Steve Schlafman tweeted:

I’m a big believer in letting founders review the investment memo on their company before pitching the partnership. Both sides benefit.

You can hit the orange button at the top and the bottom to see the memos. If you want to read about VC memos though, I’ve made a reading list for you.

Reading on VC investment memos

Here are all the blogs pertaining to investment memos I can find, including the occasional template.

If you can something to add, shout out in the comments and I’ll add it.

Want to nerd out more?

Venture capital investors typically (hopefully) have an investment thesis. It’s what they agree with their limited partners (LPs) as to what they are going to invest in.

You’d think that investors would share these, but well, they don’t. I’ve collected all the ones I can find here: Investment Thesis Collection from Venture Capital Firms

VC Memo Collection

Somehow got to the end of this blog and want to see the VC memos? You can click through to them here:

VC investment memo collection

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