CVE-Kauffman Fellows Endowment Fund I

The focus of the Fund is to invest in a concentrated portfolio of well established, high performing, and typically difficult to access venture funds. The TrueBridge Capital team will rely on the relationships and networks it has built over the last twenty plus years, as well as the deep and broad network of the Kauffman Fellows Program to generate attractive deal flow, perform insightful and in-depth due diligence, and build meaningful relationships with the best venture and growth equity managers in the business.

Since 1995, the Kauffman Fellows Program has graduated over 110 Fellows who work at some of the most prestigious firms in the world including Battery Ventures, Domain Associates, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Enterprise Associates, Venrock Associates, Sequoia Capital, and others. In addition, the Program is the only organization of its kind whose sole mission is to improve the quality of education with the venture capital industry.

With the majority of the Kauffman Fellows investing directly in the Fund as limited partners, the Fund enjoys unique investment access to the best fund managers in the world, as well as tremendous insight into industry and firm specific trends. The TrueBridge Capital team has harnessed the power of this network to build a concentrated portfolio of the best managers.

Academic Research Confirms Strategy

Informational Hold-up and Performance Persistence in Venture Capital by Hochburg, Ljungqvist, and Vissing-Jorgensen, August 2008