Guest post by Michael Palank (MaC Venture Capital) and Anubhav Srivastava (Tactyc) Readers can view this post in an interactive Tactyc model here. Earlier this year, Tactyc and MaC Venture Capital released an interactive seed-stage portfolio construction calculator, which serves as a high-leve
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Here is the link to the tool itself:
https://tactyc.io/published/5259
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Here are some of the charts it creates after adjusting some of the fund parameters:
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What I love about tech is how people create and share all kinds of tools online. This one is a neat portfolio construction tool.
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"Effective portfolio construction requires dealing with uncertainties and quantifying risk where possible. The Monte Carlo simulation used above to size our follow-on reserve is an example of using quantitative methods to guide a key construction parameter. Similarly, finding which graduation rate is a hurdle can inform our follow-on strategy. As a final point, it’s important to stress-test this portfolio model by reducing graduation and exit rates for a 'downside case' and evaluate if the manager is still comfortable underwriting these 'downside' returns."
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Agree - this is a fascinating tool and always nice when people give things away!