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Ben Lerer , managing partner of one of New York ’s most prestigious seed - stage venture firms , Lerer Hippeau , partake in some predictionswith Fortune ’s Leo Schwartz .

He consider speculation firms will keep on to see a bifurcation as money rain cats and dogs mostly into top funds like Thrive and a16z , as well as into smaller more bespoke funds .

“ Where you go to die is somewhere floating in the middle , managing a few billion dollars , and do n’t do anything peculiarly well , ” he told Schwartz .

While a few billion dollars is certainly not sucker alteration , a lot of house have struggled to parent since the ending of 2021 ’s spending spree . The Financial Timesalso reported sooner this monththat the routine of active venture house in the U.S. has started to decline as cash flows to only the top public figure . Perhaps the braggy example of a top - name VC firm announcing in 2024 thatit would shutter was Foundry Group .

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