“"VC Fund Performance: Q2 2026" (Carta); "The Emerging Manager Paradox" (Team8); "Where LPs are putting capital in the next 12 months" (Commonplace)”
“Team8 argues that waiting has a price: by the time a new manager looks safe to back, its fund is often already full”
Source→“Team8 partner Aaron Dubin published The Emerging Manager Paradox”
Source→“Encore AI turns recorded customer interactions into revenue agents that copy what a company's best performers do across voice, chat, and onboarding. The $30M Series A led by Team8—with banks and insurers that started as customers also investing.”
“Customer investment validates product-market fit better than revenue metrics. Encore AI's round is notable not for its size but for its structure: the banks and insurers writing checks started as customers.”
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