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Ben Botes | GP & 4x FounderHow capital actually moves — from an active GP and 4x exited founder, for founders and investors in markets where the standard playbook does not apply.
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How Venture Fund Economics Decide Which Startups Get Funded
The founder thinks they are pitching the company. Inside the fund, the GP is also testing whether the company can carry the fund.
The most consequential decisions in venture capital are made before a founder ever walks into the room, and t...
How Venture Capital Firms Really Find and Evaluate Startups Before the First Meeting
More than two hundred venture funds now pay for software whose only job is to find founders before they show up in any database. The tools have names — Evertrace, Harmonic, a handful of others — and they spend their day crawling trade regis...
Emerging Market Sectors Most Underfunded by Venture Capital (2026)
Most venture capital still follows transaction rails. The biggest opportunities may now sit where the capital has not yet arrived.
For most of the past decade, the most valuable thing a company could build was a faster way to move money, a...
How Physical Distribution Still Powers Emerging-Market Fintech
The digital layer gets the valuation. The physical trust layer often does the work.
Why Emerging-Market Fintech Runs on Physical Trust, Not Just Software
How Development Finance Shapes Venture Capital in Emerging Markets
The cheque a startup announces is rarely the whole story. In hard markets, a layer of development finance often makes the round possible and shapes what the company must become.
For a long time I filed development finance in the side colum...
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The edge that gets you to the right yes, faster. Ben Botes — active GP and four-time exited founder on how capital really moves and the calls founders get wrong.
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