Video Series: Private Investing
Cambridge Associates
Focused on Driving Long-Term Performance
Venture Capital Investing
Over five decades, we have continually built the resources, relationships, and platform needed to help find and track best-in-class venture funds that will drive outperformance for our clients.
Why Cambridge Associates?
An early partner to the first generation of venture investors
As an early pioneer in alternative asset investing, we introduced our first clients, a group of sophisticated US endowments, to venture capital investing in the late 1970s. Since then, our specialized expertise and deep networks have been the biggest driver of long-term returns for sophisticated investors.
Plus, with no other business agendas competing for our best ideas, our investment decisions are motivated solely by our clients’ interests.
*As of June 30, 2024.
Annual Outlook Report
PE/VC: 2025 Outlook
As we head into 2025, many of the factors that had an outsized effect on the private investment (PI) market environment in 2021–22 are retreating into the background.
How We Invest
A rigorous process has no substitute
With the wide dispersion of returns present in venture capital investing, investors need to feel confident that they are aiming for top-quartile returns. We believe rigorous due diligence and skilled manager selection are critical for building a successful venture capital portfolio.
Our high-top investment approach ensures that each client’s portfolio risk level aligns with their long-term objectives.
Our Approach
A first stop for the next generation of top-quartile venture funds
While venture capital investing often connotes established, access-constrained funds, a majority of the top-quartile performers in a given vintage year are actually emerging managers raising one of their first few funds.
Our deep global networks, built over 50 years of investing in venture capital, often make us the first stop for these individuals who spin out of their prior firms to set up their own shops. And our knowledge of those portfolio managers—along with deal-level information tracked in our proprietary database—helps us to glean insights on those spin-outs based on the managers’ histories.
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