Question: Your fund is a VC fund in software services sector, where you are a general partner (GP). Your optimal portfolio size[1] is 10 ventures for

Your fund is a VC fund in software services sector, where you are a general partner (GP). Your optimal portfolio size[1] is 10 ventures for this current fund of 20MM raised from your LPs.

Company = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10} ventures

After doing Berkus method based due diligence on 100 potential investments, you write checks according to below configuration for each fund.

Invested capital I = {2.5, 5, 0.75, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 7.5, 0.5, 0.25, 1.75} MM for F =

To your Funds Limited Partners and investors, you showcase a projected DPI ratio based on your analyses of likely (projected) exit scenarios for the portfolio and exit multipliers for funds sector:

E_proj = {B, GS, B, L, BH, L, GS, BH, B, L}

Exit multiplier per scenario

{L = 0

B = 0.22

BH = 1

HR = 17.75

GS = 44.5}

  1. Answer the parameters and projections below using Excel:

Total Amount Invested (paid-in capital) in fund ($MM) _____________

Average investments ($) and percentage of fund, per company _____________

Projected Amount of Capital Returned ($MM) _____________

Projected Distributed to Paid-In (DPI) Capital Ratio _____________

Combined exit multiple projection

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