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Venture Workflows · Areas of Venture

Where agents earn their keep

Ten workflow areas that show up across nearly every venture firm. Adapted from the Kauffman Fellows Class 20 living draft on perspectives & practice in venture capital.

  1. Strategy Development & Raising a Fund

    How emerging managers grind through hundreds of LP meetings, build the team, and close anchors.

    • Emerging managers
    • Anchor LPs
    • Pre-marketing
    • GP commit
    • First close
  2. Proprietary Dealflow & Dealflow Management

    Earn the inbound, route the inbound, say "no" fast and well, and get invited to oversubscribed rounds.

    • Sourcing engines
    • Founder-friendly nos
    • Inbound triage
    • CRM for VCs
    • Oversubscribed rounds
  3. Thesis, Diligence & Pushing Deals Through

    Build a point of view, run diligence sprints, and move through committee without losing the founder.

    • Investment thesis
    • Diligence sprints
    • Reference calls
    • IC dynamics
    • Priority deals
  4. Winning Deals

    Personal brand, fast trust, and valuation gymnastics — what makes the founder pick you.

    • Why founders pick you
    • Personal brand
    • Term sheet timing
    • Lead investor leverage
    • Valuation gymnastics
  5. Board Participation & Governance

    Showing up, value-add vs. busywork, and knowing when to be impermanent.

    • Board seats
    • Observer rights
    • Founder coaching
    • Impermanent boards
    • Crisis governance
  6. Portfolio Services & Community

    Service offers, community programs, growth acceleration, and "one-battle" frameworks.

    • Platform teams
    • Customer intros
    • One-battle framework
    • Talent network
    • Founder community
  7. Portfolio Tracking, Modeling & Follow-On Management

    Internal dashboards, portfolio review cadences, and follow-on decision frameworks.

    • Portfolio dashboards
    • Reserves modeling
    • Follow-on math
    • Markup signals
    • Cohort analysis
  8. Fund Management & Administration

    Fund admin, investment committee design, and the often-invisible non-investing roles.

    • Fund admin stack
    • IC design
    • Back office
    • Carry waterfall
    • GP/LP economics
  9. Investor Relations, Community & Reporting

    Quarterly reports, LP days, and building a community around your fund.

    • Quarterly letters
    • AGM playbook
    • Capital calls
    • LP days
    • DPI storytelling
  10. Exits, Auctions, Secondary, Liquidity & Distributions

    Selling early, secondaries, distributions — the M&A grind and the end of the J-curve.

    • Secondary sales
    • Tender offers
    • M&A timing
    • Distributions in kind
    • DPI vs TVPI