The global VC GP fundraising question library

What this library is, and what it is not

It is a decision layer for a specific reader, meaning a general partner raising a venture fund, at a specific moment, meaning before or during a raise. Every page owns one question and answers it directly, then gives the framework, the checklist, the decision tree, or the worked arithmetic that makes the answer usable rather than merely agreeable.

It is not a venture blog, it is not a directory of limited partners, and it is not a ranking of anything. Nothing here scores a fund, grades a manager, or compares one manager to a cohort, which is a product principle rather than an editorial preference. Where a page describes readiness it describes completeness, meaning what exists and what does not.

It is also not general startup fundraising advice wearing different clothes. A company raising a round and a manager raising a fund face different counterparties, different diligence, different documents, and different rules, and a page that blurs them is worse than no page.

How each page is researched

Every page is written against sources that were opened and read for that page, and the ones a page relied on are listed at the foot of it with the date they were checked. The rule that makes the dates meaningful is the one about failure: where a source could not be reached, it is not cited as though it had been, and the page either finds a verified replacement or leaves the claim out.

Sources are weighed in a fixed order when they disagree, which is what keeps a well-written blog post from outranking a regulator in the answer.

• A regulator, a statute, an official programme, or an official institutional standard.
• A limited partner association, an allocator, or university research.
• Fund counsel, a fund administrator, an auditor, or a tax provider explaining their own field.
• A general partner or limited partner interview, podcast, or practitioner article, labelled as practitioner voice on the page.
• A forum or social post, used as a qualitative signal about what managers are actually asking, and never as a source for a fact.

Two categories of claim are refused outright rather than sourced carefully. Nothing here invents a limited partner mandate, a ticket size, a fee level, a fund term, a timeline, a performance figure, or a regional requirement. And nothing here gives individualized legal, tax, securities, or investment advice; where an answer turns on those, the page says so and routes the question to counsel.

The as-of date, and what it does and does not promise

Every page carries the date its sources were checked, stated as a limit rather than as a badge. A regulator can change a rule, an institution can withdraw a programme, and a practitioner's framing can age, all on their own schedule rather than on ours.

So the date tells you when somebody last looked. It does not tell you that nothing has changed since, and no page in this library should be read as claiming that it has not. Where a decision matters, confirm the current position with the source or with your own advisers.

How the library is updated

Three kinds of update happen, and they are different from each other. A wave adds new question pages and this hub is updated in the same step, so the index never lags the library. A refresh revisits pages whose subject moves, meaning anything resting on a regulator's rule, a published programme, or a market condition, and re-dates them against the sources.

A correction is the third kind and the most important. Where a page turns out to have overstated a source or cited something that could not be confirmed on a second read, the page is corrected and the correction is recorded rather than quietly absorbed. That practice is already visible elsewhere in Blueprint Intelligence, where two pages carry public corrections of exactly this kind.

Where this sits in Blueprint Intelligence

These pages are not a separate library. Each one sits in the pillar its question belongs to, which is why a readiness question lives beside the rest of Institutional Readiness and a structure question lives beside the rest of Fund Formation and Timelines. This hub is the collection view across them, and the pillar view below links to each pillar's own index.

The rest of Blueprint Intelligence goes deeper on subjects this library reaches for. The data room and diligence pillar covers the questionnaire section by section, the LP archetypes pillar covers how each kind of allocator actually runs diligence, and the specialized pathways pillar covers state capital programmes and individual development finance institutions with their own published routes.

Published questions, by stage of the raise

79 questions are published so far, in the order a manager meets them.

By Blueprint Intelligence pillar

These pages are not a separate library. Each one sits in the pillar its question belongs to, and each pillar index below holds everything else Blueprint has published on that subject.

By limited partner type

A page appears under every kind of allocator its answer speaks to, so some are listed more than once. The LP Archetypes pillar covers how each of these actually runs diligence.

By where the answer changes

Every page here is written to be read anywhere. This view groups them by which jurisdictions a page names specifically, so a reader outside those markets knows which parts of an answer are theirs and which are somebody else’s.