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The Startup Betting It Can Turn Locked-Up Venture Bets Into Cash - Without a Fire Sale
Venture investors are sitting on trillions in gains they cannot spend. Turbine's pitch: borrow against the position instead of dumping it at a discount.
InvestorFlow
InvestorFlow is a San Francisco-based software company that builds a purpose-built CRM and investor portal for private markets firms - private equity, private credit and real assets managers. Built on Salesforce and layered with AI, its platform unifies fundraising (capital formation), deal sourcing and execution (capital deployment), and LP engagement and reporting (investor services) in one place. Formed through the 2022 merger of InvestorFlow's investor portal with the Blackstone-incubated FundEngine CRM (Cloud Theory) and backed by a $30M Series A from Ambina Partners, the company serves more than 200 alternative asset managers - including 25 of the top 50 - representing over $6 trillion in assets, 750 funds and 90,000 LPs.
AngelList
AngelList is the software platform behind a meaningful slice of U.S. early-stage venture capital. What started in 2010 as a way to introduce founders to angel investors has become the infrastructure layer for fund managers - the place where funds, SPVs, syndicates, and rolling funds get formed, administered, and reported on. Today thousands of investors run capital through AngelList, and a sizeable share of every new American startup round touches its rails.
Jen Kha
Jen Kha is the Operating Partner and Head of Investor Relations and Fundraising at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. She leads global partnerships, managing the firm's relationships with limited partners and orchestrating capital raises across all of a16z's investment strategies. Over her career she has been involved in raising over $55 billion in LP capital - an extraordinary track record that spans healthcare investment banking, corporate strategy at HSN, investor relations at TCV, and now the front lines of tech VC. In 2023 she registered as a lobbyist in California to help a16z tap major pension funds like CalPERS for the first time in the firm's history.
Megan Holston-Alexander
Megan Holston-Alexander is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and the Head of the Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) - Silicon Valley's first venture capital fund composed exclusively of Black cultural leaders and organizations committed to Black wealth generation. A Montgomery, Alabama native who grew up in the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement, she studied sociology at Clark Atlanta University, earned an MA from University of Houston, and an MBA from Stanford (where she relaunched the Black Business Conference after a decade-long absence). Before joining a16z in 2020, she was a founding team member at Unusual Ventures. At CLF, she has helped deploy capital into 300+ startups across consumer, crypto, fintech, healthcare, and enterprise while connecting athletes, entertainers, and executives to technology's early cap tables - all while donating 100% of CLF's management fees and carry to nonprofits that build the next generation of Black technologists.