IVCA Feature: Young Adults in the Venture Capital and Private Equity Space
June 25, 2025
Is the future unknown or of the now? With financial education becoming highly sophisticated, more Gen Z and even younger adults are entering the Venture Capital and Private Equity space. With fresh connection to the world around them, they seek to both disrupt the now and shape that future. The online press weighs in on the topic.
FastCompany.com, ‘The Rise of the 20-Something VC’
[There are] a growing number of Gen Zers and younger Millennials who are bypassing the traditional route into VC. No long years of analyst work for them. No rising to partner at an established firm, before perhaps striking out on their own at 40. Instead, thanks to shifting dynamics in the tech world, some younger investors are hanging out their shingle from jump.
READ MORE: https://www.fastcompany.com/91150124/the-rise-of-the-20-something-vc
Fortune.com, ‘How Legendary Venture Firm Insight Partners Hires – and Trains – its Next Generation of Investors’
[At the turn of the millennia] it was almost unheard of for Venture Capital firms to hire out of college – that was more the domain of banks and consulting firms. But why wait to hire someone in their mid-twenties after they’ve spent a few years [elsewhere] and retrain them to be an investor? Why not just hire them out of university?
Forbes Podcast, ‘This Young Venture Capitalist Is Focused On Early-Stage Startups and it’s Paying Off’
Potential backers raised their eyebrows a film-student-turned-graphic-designer decided to launch her venture firm. Molly Mielke had designed products at Figma and Notion and consulted for companies including Stripe and Retool, but she had no formal investment track record. ‘I definitely don’t look like a model VC,’ she says. ‘I started to specialize more and more in helping tech companies at the earliest stages tell their stories.’
LISTEN HERE (19 Minutes): https://youtu.be/VdTcC7GalEM?si=WvnkLHBtC7NgqHlk
20VC Podcast, ‘The Intersection of Venture Capital and Media’
20VC (formerly The Twenty Minute VC) is hosted by Harry Stebbings. He interviews the world’s greatest investors and founders. Stebbings launched ‘The Twenty Minute VC’ in 2015 at age 19, and his Venture Capital firm (20VCFund) – which as of 2024 manages over $600M in assets.
LISTEN HERE: https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/
Barrons.com, ‘Younger Investors Prefer Private Equity, Crypto and Hard Assets to U.S. Stocks, Study Finds’
Wealthy, younger investors have a very different view of the best way to invest than their older peers, preferring real estate, cryptocurrencies and digital assets, and PRIVATE EQUITY to U.S. stocks, according to a new study from Bank of America Private Bank.
Medium.com, ‘Jonathan Fhima of F2: Five Things I Learned As A Twenty-Something Founder’
Jonathan launched F2 in June of 2021, a Private Equity firm focused on real estate debt investments such as senior loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity investments, and ‘not financings.’ In less than two years, F2 has deployed more than $100M and has closed 16 transactions.
Invest Like the Best Podcast, ‘Matt Perelman & Alex Sloane – The Art of the Franchise’
Matt Perelman and Alex Sloane, Co-founders and Managing Partners of Garnett Station Partners Private Equity. GSP invests in the trillion-dollar franchise and consumer services industries. Matt and Alex started the firm in 2014 as MBA students when they bought 23 Burger King restaurants. Since then, they’ve invested in 26 other multi-unit businesses, from gyms to car washes to funeral homes. GSP is now a leader in its field. They appear on INVEST LIKE THE BEST with Patrick O’Shaughnessy.
LISTEN HERE (100 MINUTES): https://podpulse.ai/podcast-notes-and-takeaways/invest-like-the-best-with-patrick-oshaughnessy-matt-perelman-amp-alex-sloane-the-art-of-franchise-investing-invest-like-the-best-ep392