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If you're planning to transfer an angel investment as a warehouse deal, what should be the minimum size?

Good evening VC Lab team! The GPs of Plaintext have made recent angel investments that are in the $10-25k range each. We're hoping to raise a $10m fund so  these would typically be too small given we plan on making 30-40 investments.  Nonetheless, can/should we use them to fund our 1% GP commitment or as warehouse deals?  Thank you,  Fran

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As a general rule of thumb, the minimum transfer of a previous angel investment into a VC fund should be a $25K position at cost. Transfers should resemble, as much as possible, what an actual investment looks like in terms of stage of e...

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Can I warehouse an investment in another fund?

Can I warehouse an investment in another fund?

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You may be able to, however, please note in practice transferring the warehoused investment to your fund would be difficult because you would have to obtain consent from the fund you invested in to transfer your ownership to your own fun...