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Carta — VC Fund Performance, Q2 2026

VC Fund Performance Q2 2026 analyzes how top-performing venture capital funds from the late 2010s show diverging trends: IRRs declining while TVPIs surge, indicating strong paper gains but slower-than-expected return timelines. The report highlights a flight to megafunds, declining LP counts per fund, and lengthening liquidity timelines with minimal concrete distributions for most funds.

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Summary

VC Fund Performance Q2 2026 analyzes how top-performing venture capital funds from the late 2010s show diverging trends: IRRs declining while TVPIs surge, indicating strong paper gains but slower-than-expected return timelines. The report highlights a flight to megafunds, declining LP counts per fund, and lengthening liquidity timelines with minimal concrete distributions for most funds.

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venture-capital · fund-performance · irr-tvpi · vc-metrics · q2-2026 · liquidity-analysis

Key entities

Carta (organization, 0.99) · Hamza Shad (person, 0.99) · Kevin Dowd (person, 0.99) · IRR (concept, 0.99) · TVPI (concept, 0.99) · DPI (concept, 0.95) · venture-capital-fund-performance (concept, 0.98) · Q2 2026 (event, 0.99)

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analysis · language en · status final

Provenance

claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 28 Sep 2026