The Lowdown #15

👋🏾 Hi friends!

Well that was an experience.

One and a half days driving the Tesla down from the UK to Italy, I’m not entirely sure I’d do it this way again 😂 

The highlight of the journey was entering Italy and being faced with fog for the next 100km or so - in the dark… It took me a good hour before I was able to untense every muscle in my body.

For anyone who has driven on an Italian motorway, you know how ‘fun’ that can be as the guys in the car behind you come up almost bumper to bumper and start flashing their beams at you to get out of the way - well that + fog = a waking nightmare!

This week on Nothing Ventured, I spoke to Josh Bell founding and General Partner of Dawn Capital.

Here’s what you can expect:

➡️ There’s still capital out there for emerging managers.

➡️ Why diversity leads to better investment decisions and how Dawn baked it into their hiring strategy.

➡️ The S/EIS trap, what it means for founders looking to raise Venture Capital.

➡️ Dawn’s story and the journey to raising their latest $700m fund.

Check it out!

This week will be a bit of a reduced edition as I wind down a little for the festive season and there was one bit of news that sums up everything I’ve been thinking for the last year - that we’re going to see a massive shift in the private markets over the coming year(s).

🤑 4 trillion dollars waiting on the sidelines

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