スタートアップ育成のFounder InstituteがVCを育てる無料トレーニングプログラムVC Labを開始

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Founder Instituteは、これから新しいスタートアップを立ち上げる起業家を助けるだけでない。その新たな部門であるVC Labで1000の新しいベンチャーキャピタルファンドの立ち上げを促進したいという。

FIの共同創業者であるJonathan Greechan（ジョナサン・グリーチャン）氏はこれを「スタートアップのエコシステムに大きく欠けている部分をなくすためだ」と語っている。

「スタートアップの世界がもっと充実し、インパクトのあるエコシステムに円滑に資金が行き渡るようになったら、それは人間性にとって本当にポジティブなものになる」と彼はいう。

VC Labのセッションはすでに2回行っている。1回目は2020年春で、グリーチャン氏によるとそれはかろうじて通用するプロダクトのようなものだったという。夏から秋にかけてのもう1回のセッションはいわばベータテスト、そして次回の申込の締め切りは2021年2月15日に迫っている。

Greechanによると、以前の受講者からは48のファンドが生まれ、2021年第1四半期には計1億ドル（約105億円）の投資資金を調達する予定だという。

これらのファンドの多くがまだ原資調達の過程にあり、一般公開はできないが、彼によると1/3のファンドは米国社会で弱者と呼ばれているような人々がパートナーとなり、その半数以上が社会的インパクトのあるスタートアップの支援を狙っているという。その例としてグリーチャン氏が挙げるのは、アフリカのサハラ砂漠以南地区にスタートアップを育てようとするPacer Venturesだ。この300万ドル（約3億2000万円）のファンドは、VC Labが育てようとしているVCの好例だ。

「これらの新しいファンドマネージャーが抱える問題の多くは、新しい起業家が抱える問題とよく似ている。彼らは、事業として無事に離陸するまでの1つ1つのステップが、まだよくわかっていない」とグリーチャン氏はいう。

VC Labはまさに、VC志願者が踏むべきステップを教える。カリキュラムがあり、ウェビナーも利用する。オフィスはバーチャルで、Slackで会話をする。参加者は公徳課程のThe Mensarius Oathを受講して、「スタートアップとファンドは。人間性に貢献すべき」とか「不公平や悪徳に導く権力の濫用を避けよ」といった倫理項目も叩き込まれる。

受講は無料だが、専用オフィスは月額500ドル（約5万3000円）だ。Founders InstituteとVC Lab自身は、財政的にはファンドに参加しない。

ビジネスモデルについて尋ねるとグリーチャン氏は、「それは我々のビジネスの次の段階と見ていない。これまでVCとして、おもしろくてインパクトのある企業を作る人たちのコミュニティを育ててきたが、これからはそれと並んで、インパクトのある企業に投資する人々のコミュニティを作ろうとしている。チャリティのためではないが、長期的には卒業者の全員にとって何らかの利益があるはずだ」。

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【原文】

The Founder Institute isn’t just trying to help entrepreneurs launch new startups — with its new VC Lab, the accelerator says it’s also hoping to fuel the launch of 1,000 new venture capital funds.

FI co-founder Jonathan Greechan described this as an attempt to bring more “alignment” to the startup ecosystem.”

“The thinking here is that if we can better align the startup and funding ecosystems towards impact, then we can create companies that are truly positive for humanity,” Greechan said.

In fact, FI has already held two sessions of the VC Lab, one in the spring of last year (which Greechan compared to a minimum viable product) and one in the summer-fall (which he compared to a beta test). Now the deadline to apply for the next cohort is coming up on February 14.

Greechan said that 48 funds have emerged from its most recent cohort and they’re on track to raise a total of $100 million in the first quarter of this year.

While many of those funds are still in the fundraising process and cannot be disclosed publicly yet, he noted that one-third of those funds are being created by partners from underrepresented backgrounds and that more than half of them are focused on impact. And he pointed to Pacer Ventures — a $3 million fund targeting startups in sub-Saharan African — as an example of the kind of firm VC Lab is meant to support.

“What we found was that a lot of the issues that these new fund managers have are pretty similar to the issues that new entrepreneurs have,” Greechan said. “They don’t understand the sequence of steps to actually get them off the ground.”

VC Lab is meant to help them understand those steps, with a curriculum that includes webinars, virtual office hours and conversations on Slack. Participants are also required to take The Mensarius Oath, which commits them to a number of values, including endeavoring “to help create positive outcomes for all of humanity” and opposing “any abuse of power that leads to unfair advantage, seduction, corruption or mistreatment.”

The program is free, although participants can also pay $500 a month for access to “premium office hours.” Founders Institute/VC Lab isn’t participating in the funds financially.

When I asked about the business model, Greechan said, “We’re not looking at this necessarily as the next phase of our business. We’ve been fostering this community of people building interesting and impactful companies, and now we’re making sure that we build a correlated community of people funding impactful companies. It’s not for charity, but there’s long-term benefits that we see for all of our grads.”

（文：Anthony Ha、翻訳：Hiroshi Iwatani）

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