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Firm Narrative and Track Record
Track record attribution, translating SPVs and angel deals into fund-equivalent performance
A first-time manager's real track record almost always lives in SPVs, scout allocations, and angel checks, and restating it credibly means showing the arithmetic, not telling the story.
Attribution is not a story, it is a spreadsheet. Institutional LPs expect a structured record of who made each call and how the company performed, not a narrative paragraph recounting the highlights. The restatement that actually holds up under diligence has two properties: it is computed the same way every time, and it says plainly what it does and does not cover.
What "restated as fund-equivalent" actually means
It means treating each pre-fund investment, an SPV, a scout check, an angel deal, the same way a fund treats a portfolio position: tracked by initial check size, by realization status, and by return. A track record restated this way reports two figures across the realized positions only, a check-size-weighted average gross IRR and a check-size-weighted average MOIC, weighted by the actual capital deployed rather than treated as if every deal mattered equally. A three-hundred-thousand-dollar check and a ten-thousand-dollar check are not the same evidence of judgment, and a weighted figure says so.
The discipline that makes a restatement credible
- Realized positions only. An unrealized position has no return yet, and including a mark-to-market valuation as if it were a return conflates a paper number with a proven one.
- Every excluded position is named, not hidden. A deal without a recorded check size cannot be weighted honestly, so it gets excluded from the weighted figure, and that exclusion is stated directly rather than folded silently into an average that quietly overstates what it covers.
- The method does not change deal to deal. A GP who weights by check size for the deals that help the number and drops to a simple average for the ones that do not is doing the thing LPs are specifically trained to catch.
Colibrí Institute research finds a direct relationship between check-size discipline and outperformance: emerging managers deploying $5 million average checks show 14 percentage points higher IRR than the $10 million baseline, while checks of $25 million or more underperform by up to 42 percentage points. Source, Colibrí Institute, Why Emerging Venture Capital Managers Matter (Moncada and Salas, 2026).
What this restatement is, and is not
This restatement produces a gross figure, not a net one. Pre-fund deals almost never ran through a vehicle charging the management fee and carry the new fund will actually charge, so there is no audited net return to report, only gross performance on capital actually deployed. Presenting that gross figure honestly, clearly labeled as gross, is more credible than implying a precision a net figure would suggest but cannot support. See the companion page on gross versus net returns for how to handle that distinction explicitly rather than leaving it ambiguous.
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