Despite Coronavirus, Many Early-Stage VCs Continue Business as Usual

We interviewed early-stage VCs to see how the global pandemic is impacting their funds and companies

Given all of the uncertainty in public and private markets, there have been numerous headlines and reports of VCs hitting pause during the coronavirus epidemic. At Connetic, we have been operating as a remote VC for the past 2 years with a completely digital investing process so very little has changed for us. We are still writing checks and looking to see as many opportunities as we can.

We weren’t sure if we were alone. So, we thought it would be helpful to check in with a few other early-stage VCs to see how they are adapting to the pandemic and to see if anything has changed in their world.

I interviewed 4 early-stage VCs with offices in Chicago. If you don’t have time to read through the full interviews, here are some highlights:

- All funds are still actively investing and not changing their size of # of checks written

- Remote working is the only significant change to operations