Investment Manager Mastermind
A trusted lab for next-generation Investment Managers and Principals stepping into the VC Partner role with clarity and conviction. You already know how to evaluate a deal. This is about everything else: the leadership, the positioning, the decisions you make when there's no playbook and the room is watching.
Begin a ConversationLeadership in venture capital is not only strategic. It is personal, relational, and deeply human.
We facilitate the conversations that matter, and we create space for reflection, honesty, and the occasional moment of levity. In our experience clarity doesn't always emerge through analysis.
Sometimes it shows up through connection, creativity, and the freedom to be fully yourself in the room.
A Circle for Investment Managers in Transition
Investment Managers and Principals who are ready to step into the Partner role with eyes open to what it actually demands.
Senior Without the Vote
You're the most senior person in the room who still doesn't have a full IC vote, and you're ready to change that.
Navigating Fund Politics
GP dynamics, LP expectations, portfolio relationships, and the governance structures nobody really explains.
Owning Your Investment POV
Discovering your zone of genius, building your own investment thesis, and making the move from employee to owner.
What We Explore Together
The work, across three months.
Power dynamics inside the fund: how decisions actually get made, where you stand, and how to show up with authority before the title confirms it
Your zone of genius: what you're uniquely good at, and how to build from that rather than compensating for what you're not
Your investment POV: what you actually believe about capital, risk, and the future, and how to articulate it with confidence
Difficult conversations, done well: using brain-based principles to navigate high-stakes moments with partners, LPs, and founders
Stakeholder dynamics: understanding what GPs, LPs, and portfolio founders actually need from you at this stage
Everything in One Cohort
Bi-Weekly Mastermind Sessions
Deep, confidential conversations grounded in real-life decisions.
1:1 Executive Coaching
Personalized support to clarify your voice and your next moves.
Expert Conversations
Investors, LPs, and alternative thinkers.
Private Peer Circle
A trusted network of Investment Managers navigating similar transitions.
Frameworks & Tools
To develop your own approach to capital allocation.
Reflection & Expression
Because becoming a Partner is about presence and self-trust, not only precision.
Hard Skill Awareness
Awareness of the hard skills you need to get to your next milestone.
The Room You've Been Missing
- The conversations you need to have, but rarely can.
- A space where nuance, vulnerability, and power coexist.
- Real challenges brought forward and worked through together.
- Both inner clarity and practical capability are developed.
- A confidential personal advisory circle, without hierarchy or performance.
- Space for both depth and lightness: responsibility alongside joy and human connection.
Guided by Practitioners, Not Theorists
Liliana Negrila
Coach & Facilitator
Liliana Negrila spent five years at the European Investment Fund as an LP investing in VC funds. She now advises emerging managers on securing institutional funding, as part of Pitch Me First.
In parallel, she coaches entrepreneurs and investors on stepping into leadership with conviction, improving communication, managing the pressures of fundraising, and building a culture of trust and growth.
Anieke Lamers
Founder, The VC Coach
A VC with 15+ years of venture experience and the founder of The VC Coach. She has facilitated multiple peer mastermind groups, combining deep investment expertise with a human-centered coaching approach: a space where investors can tackle strategic, operational, and personal challenges openly, and leave with practical insight and a trusted network.
Guest Speakers
Guest Facilitators
Select GPs and LPs will join specific sessions, including active investors at institutional funds and people who have sat on both sides of the table at some of Europe's most significant capital allocators. Speakers are confirmed closer to the program start.
By Application Only
Participation is by application and conversation. We curate for trust, readiness, and fit.
- Bi-weekly mastermind sessions
- 1:1 executive coaching
- Expert conversations with investors & LPs
- Private peer circle access
- Frameworks for capital allocation
Application interviews last week of August · Program kicks off Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
Ready to Find Your People?
You are not just managing capital. You are managing responsibility, influence, and the possibility to shape what the future looks like. The Partner seat doesn't come to those who wait, but it does come to those who are ready.
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