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Q4 2026 Venture Trends: The Race So Far

48 votes in, and the top four trends are one vote apart. See where GPs and LPs stand, and add your top 3.

The J Curve in Venture Capital Explained

Why a fund loses money before it makes any

How to Make the Most of VC Lab

What the managers who close actually do

What to Expect from the LP Institute

Inside Decile Group program for LPs

You Already Know Your First LPs

Where the first checks actually come from

Inside the Agentic VC Stack Session

What shipped in Decile Hub

What We Covered in the LP Archetypes Session

Tailoring the conversation to each LP

Approaching Institutional LPs as an Emerging Manager

Fund size decides which allocators you can credibly target

Charles Hudson’s Advice for Emerging Fund Managers

The full recap of an hour with Precursor Ventures

Why Precursor Keeps Every Fund Under $100M

Five funds, never one over one hundred million

What Charles Hudson Looks For in Founders

Why he looks for people off the golden path

How Precursor Decides Without an Investment Committee

Three practices people called mistakes, now the strategy

Pre-Seed Pricing Discipline in the Cursor Era

What a sixty billion dollar outcome did to pricing

The Six-Month Test for Follow-On Investments

What actually predicts success after the first check

Sep 28, 2026

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SF Tech Week 2026 Events

Seven in-person events for GPs and LPs, Oct 5 to 9

Sep 28, 2026

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VC Lab Cohort 23: The Era of the Agentic Fund

Your agents run the fund. You lead it.

Sep 26, 2026

Q4 2026 Venture Trends

Venture has never agreed on anything this much. Vote your top three trends for Q4 2026, then join us live on October 22nd for the breakdown and an agentic AI demo.

Sep 21, 2026

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Venture Trailblazers: Charles Hudson

The first-check investor behind 375+ companies joins Adeo Ressi live on October 1

Sep 03, 2026

Top Decile Podcast: Tal Schwartz

Canada's policy lag is his investment map, not a handicap.

Sep 03, 2026

Top Decile Podcast: Javier Cueto

Latin America does not need unicorns to win.

Sep 03, 2026

Top Decile Podcast: Eran Savir

Revenue from strangers is the only proof that counts.

Sep 01, 2026

Lines, Not Dots: How to Follow Up With LPs After an Event

Turn event conversations into LP commitments

Sep 01, 2026

How to Close a VC Fund: A Step-by-Step Guide from Adeo Ressi

The exact LP closing sequence, from lead to wire

TVPI, DPI and MOIC: What Venture Fund Metrics Actually Tell You

What each fund metric measures, and which LPs trust.

The Pre-Seed Fund: How to Start and Run One

Sizing, construction and fundraising for a first pre-seed fund.

VC Check Size: The Arithmetic Behind Every Investment

How fund size and reserves determine your initial check.

The Venture Fund of Funds: What It Buys and What It Costs

What a fund of funds buys, and what it costs.

The Solo GP: How One Person Runs a Venture Fund

Economics, operating load and LP diligence for one-person funds.

The Local Venture Capital Fund: Why Proximity Wins at Pre-Seed

Why proximity beats brand at the earliest stage

Zombie Funds: What They Are and How to Avoid Running One

How funds go quiet, and how to avoid it

Non-Consensus Investing: Where the Real Opportunity Still Lives

Why the real edge sits at pre-seed

The Small Fund Advantage: What Sub $10M Funds Do That Large Funds Cannot

What a sub $10M fund can actually do

Top Decile Podcast: Vijay Rajendran and Amit Goel

Vertical first, AI second. Vijay Rajendran and Amit Goel built gAI Ventures to act as an institutional co-founder, building companies from scratch alongside domain experts.

Top Decile Podcast: Nathan Maton

Nathan Maton built Basal Capital around repeat founders, the glass eaters, and a process for earning conviction and access before a round is even announced.

Top Decile Podcast: Vineet Shah

Vineet Shah spent 18 years commercializing frontier industrial technology. He built 8 Clockwise to fund the energy transition companies that never make it out of the lab.

Top Decile Podcast: Genevieve LeMarchal

Fewer than 10 percent of VCs do healthcare. Genevieve LeMarchal built Suncoast Ventures to back digital health, health tech, and medical device founders before the science is de-risked.

Top Decile Podcast: Anca Burke and Andrey Mikhalchuk

ARTA Ventures backs US applied AI founders at the seed stage. Anca Burke and Andrey Mikhalchuk on why operators, not financiers, make the best early stage investors.

Top Decile Podcast: Ryan Else

Ryan Else built Roadster Capital to back pre-seed and seed founders modernizing the American industrial base across defense, manufacturing, logistics, and applied AI.

Top Decile Podcast: Mike Keymer

Quantum computing has been five years away for thirty years. Mike Keymer built Alphaket Fund I around the conviction that the wait is finally ending.

Top Decile Podcast: Garrett Smith

Garrett Smith exited two medtech startups for a combined $600M, then built ReefHaven Ventures to write the first institutional check into founders at the convergence of biology, robotics, and AI.

Aug 21, 2026

Emerging Manager LPs: Why Your First Investors Are People You Already Know

Your first LPs are individuals, not institutions

The LP Fundraising Roadshow: How Emerging Managers Run One

Manufacturing momentum for a first close

Emerging Manager Portfolio Construction: Building a Fund I That Works

Five decisions that define a Fund I

Diverse GP Strategies: What the Fund Formation Data Actually Shows

What the fund formation data actually shows

ESG in Venture Capital: A Practical Guide for Emerging Managers

ESG sized for funds without sustainability teams

Top Decile Podcast: Fehmida Kapadia

It takes a village, and Fehmida built the village.

Top Decile Podcast: Varun Turlapati

Five years down the line, everything would be neurotech.

Top Decile Podcast: Christian Tadrus

This industry really is ripe for modernization.

Aug 17, 2026

Mala Ramakrishnan

Mala Ramakrishnan closed Progressive Ventures Fund I at $12M from 94 LPs, almost entirely from within a three-mile radius of her house in Palo Alto.

Aug 17, 2026