London Venture Partners on venture capital in games – What, when, why, how
summary
London Venture Partners is a seed-stage games fund that writes checks up to roughly $2.5m and claims about $14.3bn shareholder value from past exits. Data pulled from events shows 89% of founders seek project finance while only 26% seek equity, and VC expects teams to produce ~2.3 products to hit a big winner. Europe supplies ~48% of western deals, VC looks for moonshot scale, clean cap tables, market leadership and founders with commercial unit-economics and prior “battle scars.”
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to LVP
- 2:08Bridging the funding gap
- 3:55Understanding VC mechanics
- 5:08Equity vs. project finance
- 7:19Scale and power laws
- 9:12Value of venture capital
- 11:04Pitching red flags
- 13:39Pitching green flags
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