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🎙 New this week! Guest Virginie Raphael, Founder and Managing Partner of FullCircle, joins us for this season on The Entrepreneurial side of VC. Listen here: https://www.pjc.vc/podcast/season3-episode5
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FullCircle is a pre-seed fund focused on the structural changes required to create a better workforce and closing the incentive alignment gap. Matt Hayes and Marissa Milbury talk with Virginie about her path to venture, her motivation for starting FullCircle (first launched in June of 2021) and her passion for helping companies at the earliest stages with FullCircle’s perpetual fund structure. ⁠
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More on what what is : ⁠
🔍 Virginie’s unexpected journey to venture ⁠
🔍 FullCircle’s perpetual fund structure ⁠
🔍 The strategies and challenges with fundraising for a perpetual fund ⁠
🔍 What her first LP commitment was like ⁠
🔍 The parallels between fundraising for a startup and a venture fund⁠
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🎙️ ICYMI: This week we launched Season 3 of The Uncovered Podcast! This season is all about The Entrepreneurial Side of VC. LInk here to listen: https://www.pjc.vc/podcast
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Within these 8 episodes you'll hear from VC founders across the U.S. at varying stages of development – from those who have just closed their first fund, to others coming off their eighth fund. In each episode we’ll dive into the founder’s background, what motivated them to get into venture capital, and some of the challenges experienced and lessons learned along the way.⁠
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📅 Tune in every Tuesday over the next 8 weeks to uncover a new founder’s story. ⁠Thank you again to all of our guests for a great season!

Guest lineup below:
🔹Ian Rountree of Cantos - Available Now
🔹David Fialkow of - Available Feb 22nd
🔹Abby Miller Levy of Primetime Partners - Available Mar 1st
🔹Vishal Vasishth of Obvious Ventures - Available Mar 8th
🔹Virginie Raphael of FullCircle - Available Mar 15th
🔹David Martirano of PJC - Available Mar 22nd
🔹Lee Hower of NextView Ventures- - Available Mar 29th
🔹Phil Bronner of Ardent Ventures - Available April 5th

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Great article by Anna Heim highlighting first-time founder success. 67% of PJC portfolio companies are founded by first-time founders, which have had tremendous success, including , and Openly to name a few. Our unique approach allows us to identify potential in founders regardless of their entrepreneurial track record. We're proud to partner with both repeat and first-time founders. Read full article here: https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/20/dont-underestimate-first-time-founders/
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