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Podcast: Investor Connect Podcast
Episode: Startup Funding Espresso – European Waterfall Model
Description: European Waterfall Model Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Venture capital funds use different payback structures. Each varies the structure for how the Limited Partners receive their returns. The European waterfall model does not pay back the carried interest to the general partners until the limited partners have received all their capital and return. The American waterfall model pays the general partners on a deal-by-deal basis. This spreads the risk over several deals and throughout the life of the fund. The American model works at the...