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📊 🌱💡Welcome back to the Rundit blog, your go-to source for insights into the startup and venture capital landscape. It’s been a while since our last roundup, and since we last ran the Startup Fundraising Program, both are back this month.
This piece covers four main areas: Rundit product updates, our own team’s experience building with AI, a startup funding spotlight, and where LP expectations are heading right now.
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| Round details: Seed, 3,5 million EUR |
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One-year IRR for venture funds is running at 17.1% right now, among the strongest of any private capital strategy PitchBook tracks. Look at what’s actually reaching LPs, though: 2021-vintage funds have returned just 0.05x DPI at the five-year mark, the lowest this century, and net cash flow to LPs has been negative 202 billion dollars since 2022. Four companies account for 93.5% of this year’s total exit value. For funds heading into a re-up, “our marks are up” is no longer the argument LPs want to hear, they want to see the cash. (Full analysis on PitchBook.)
The regulatory side is moving just as fast. Since 16 April 2026, AIFMD II requires AIFMs to disclose eight new delegation data points per fund, including delegate identity, internal portfolio management headcount, and due diligence review dates, part of the directive’s phased rollout tracked by Skadden. The standardised Annex IV template itself doesn’t change until 16 April 2027, which gives funds a year to get the underlying data organised before the format is fixed. (Full breakdown from Skadden.)
Global venture funding hit $510 billion in H1 2026, already past all of 2025, but not evenly. AI absorbed 70% of Q2 venture funding, and OpenAI and Anthropic alone took 43% of H1, according to Crunchbase’s tracking. If your fund isn’t one of the handful of AI mega-rounds, the pitch to LPs has to be won on something else, and reporting discipline is one of the few levers a GP fully controls. (Full data from Crunchbase.)
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