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BLCK VC Launches Scout Program With Lightspeed, Sequoia To Support More Black Investors


BLCK VC Launches Scout Program With Lightspeed, Sequoia To Support More Black Investors
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BLCK VC members including co-founders Frederik Groce and the scout program s mastermind, Sydney Sykes, at center.
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For all the high-speed growth and innovation that venture capital is supposed to fuel, the industry itself isn’t structured for quick change. BLCK VC co-founder Sydney Sykes knows it first-hand. Since last summer, firms have reached out to Sykes for advice on changes they can make fast.
Increasingly, her answer has been a program growing in popularity in VC: the scout. “Firms will hire a partner once or twice a year max, or an investment professional. But scout programs can be as large as you want,” Sykes says. “This seems like a really obvious solution to get more dollars in the hands of Black investors.” ....

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VC firms with SPACs are eyeing startups they're invested in


Venture capital firms are forming blank-check companies at a torrid pace.
They have the potential to buy startups they re already invested in, in order to take them public.
It s not illegal to buy companies where they have an interest, but it raises a potential conflict.
These days, more venture capital firms are either forming their own special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, or having internal conversations about doing so. A
SPAC
would let them launch a startup onto the public markets, even one from their own portfolios.
Peter Hébert, a founding partner at Lux Capital, whose SPAC started trading on the stock market last fall, said he s had at least 60 phone calls with venture capitalists who are asking if they should jump on the trend. ....

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