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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.

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3 Months Bi-weekly 90-minute sessions
6–10 Participants Curated cohort, not first-come
Remote Sessions In-person gathering optional
Starts August 2026 Applications open now
Our Approach

Leadership 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.

Who It's For

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.

The Work

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
What You Receive

Everything in One Cohort

01

Bi-Weekly Mastermind Sessions

Deep, confidential conversations grounded in real-life decisions.

"The conversation you can't have with the people who hold your carry."
02

1:1 Executive Coaching

Personalized support to clarify your voice and your next moves.

03

Expert Conversations

Investors, LPs, and alternative thinkers.

04

Private Peer Circle

A trusted network of Investment Managers navigating similar transitions.

05

Frameworks & Tools

To develop your own approach to capital allocation.

06

Reflection & Expression

Because becoming a Partner is about presence and self-trust — not only precision.

Why It Works

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.
Your Facilitators

Guided by Practitioners, Not Theorists

Liliana Negrila

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

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 programme start.

Access & Investment

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
3-Month Programme
€2,490
One-time investment
By application only — we curate for trust, readiness, and fit.
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Application interviews week of August 3rd · Programme kicks off week of August 25th, 2026

Next Steps

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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We take the work seriously. Ourselves, a little less so.