Aren't you a little young to be running a VC fund?
Some say young people are more savvy about what clicks with the younger generation. Others find them clueless about doing business
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AT the age of 27, Andre de Haes raised 30 million euros (S$48 million) for his London-based venture capital fund, Backed VC. Now 30, he and his 29-year-old business partner Alex Brunicki are among a cohort of young investors that are having a greater say in how the billions that have flowed into European venture capital in recent years are spent.
But while younger investors argue that youth gives them a better understanding of what startups might resonate with their age-group, some founders, who recount frustrating meetings with inexperienced venture capitalists, fear an over-reliance on millennial investors' intuition at the expense of know-how.
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