The Skills Every Emerging VC Needs Before Raising a Fund — Featuring Myrto Lalacos
Raising a venture fund has become more accessible, but also much more competitive.More operators, angels, founders, and ecosystem builders are exploring the path into venture capital. But wanting to become a VC and being ready to raise a fund are very different things.
In this session, we’ll explore the skills every emerging VC needs before raising a fund, including LP expectations, fund structures, investment judgment, deal flow, credibility, and the realities of building a modern venture firm.
Featuring Myrto Lalacos, Founder of The Emerging VC, this will be a practical and honest conversation for anyone who wants to understand what it really takes to move from interest in venture capital to serious fund-building.
We’ll also look at what helps emerging managers stand out, what usually holds them back, and how people without a traditional VC background can start building the skills, network, and credibility needed to grow in venture capital.
Agenda:
- Welcome
- Host and Speaker Introduction
- Panel Discussion
- Audience Q and A
- Networking Session
Speaker:
- Myrto Lalacos, Founder, The Emerging VC- She spent four years running programmes that contributed to the launch of 50-60% of new VC firms globally, building direct relationships with over 1,300 active emerging managers along the way. She now runs The Emerging VC, an independent platform of curated resources and events for Emerging VCs.
Moderators:
- Erdinc Ekinci - Founder, Investment Lead of Co-capital.vc, Co-Founder, CEO of Openfor.co, Managing Director of Founder Institute Japan/Korea/Taiwan
- Yu Li Shein- Venture Scout of Decile Group, Co-Director, Founder Institute Korea/Japan & /Taiwan Co-founder, COO, Openfor.co, Inc
What You Will Learn
What skills matter most before raising a VC fund
How emerging managers build credibility
The realities of fundraising from LPs
How new venture firms source and evaluate startups
The role of content, network, and positioning in VC
What aspiring VCs should do before launching a fund
The current state of the venture capital ecosystem
How successful managers prepare before raising a fund
Common fundraising mistakes first-time managers make
Advice for building a long-term career in venture capital
Who Should Attend
Aspiring venture capitalists
Emerging fund managers
Angel investors
Startup ecosystem builders
Accelerator and incubator operators
Startup founders interested in venture capital
Operators transitioning into investing
About Ecosystem Organization:
-Co-Capital: Co-capital is a strategic VC-as-a-Service firm pre-seed to Series A stage, focused on seeking strong partner alignment. Specializing in GTM expansion, venture building, and marketing-led growth, working with elite entrepreneurial talent and scalable startups preparing for global GTM and investment readiness. Powered by a 300+ individual expert network and delivered in close collaboration with Founder Institute and Openfor.co, enabling fast momentum and execution.
- Openfor.co is evolving into the AI-era infrastructure layer for entrepreneurial individuals — an incubator where founders, operators, creators, and professionals can plug into Silicon Valley-grade support without needing to already have a company, funding round, or elite network. Suitable to build and grow both a person as an assets and business assets as well. Through a simple membership, AI-enabled systems, visibility support, events, content, mentorship, collaboration access, and venture-connected opportunities, we help individuals become visible, valuable, commercially real, and opportunity-ready at their own pace. Our future is not just education or community; it is a scalable operating environment for people building their next career, business, startup, or investment-ready path in the AI era.
- Decile Group: Decile Group is a venture capital platform focused on helping emerging managers launch and operate venture capital firms. Through education, infrastructure, and global investor networks, Decile Group supports the next generation of VC fund managers and startup ecosystem leaders worldwide.
- Founder Institute: The Founder Institute is the world’s most proven network to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. Since 2009, our structured accelerator programs have helped over 9,000 entrepreneurs raise over 2BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 100 countries, our mission is to empower communities of talented and motivated people to build impactful technology companies worldwide.
- Founder Capital: Founder Capital is a venture capital firm focused on investing in FI’s best-performing pre-seed full-time founders who have already demonstrated traction. This layer supports founders who are building full-time, executing consistently, and showing early signs of market validation. It provides capital, strategic guidance.