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[VC Lab] LP, GP, Founder Roundtable - How Capital Flows
See how capital really moves in the VC ecosystem, from LP to GP to Founder.
Date
Oct 08, 2026
Time
08:00 am - 09:00 am
Address
Online Event
One dollar, three seats at the table. Join the LP who wrote the check, the GP who deployed it, and the founder who put it to work for a practical look at how capital actually moves in 2026. Featuring Jessica Kamada of Swizzle Ventures on what gets funded, what stalls, and where capital flows next.
Most conversations about venture capital only show you one link in the chain. This one shows you all three.
We're bringing together a limited partner, a general partner, and a founder to trace the same dollar end to end; from the allocator's diligence call, through a fund's deployment decisions, to what the money actually buys inside a company.
- Katherine Kirsch — The LP, Founder of Yellow Cherry Capital
- Katherine (Katie) founded Yellow Cherry Capital, which writes early-stage checks and makes LP commitments in funds and founders working on women's health and wealth. She also invests as an angel and as a Venture Partner at Mindshift Capital, a global women-run VC firm. Katie came to investing as an operator. As co-founder of Sisu Global Health, she took a WHO-approved blood transfusion device from prototype to market across Africa and Southeast Asia and raised more than $6M. She also co-founded Founder Forward Michigan, a year-long fellowship for high-growth founders in Detroit and Grand Rapids.
- Jessica Kamada — The GP, Managing Partner of Swizzle Ventures
- Jessica founded and runs Swizzle Ventures as Managing Partner. Swizzle is a Seattle-based pre-seed and seed fund backing companies in women's health, caregiving, and financial health. She closed Swizzle's $6.6M Fund I at more than double its original target, and she built the fund through VC Lab. Before venture, she spent 12+ years as a growth operator. That included serving as COO of growth agency Bamboo, where she led growth programs for four consumer tech companies that went on to IPO. Across her career she has worked with more than 100 companies, including 12 unicorns. She's also a former competitive figure skater, and the fund is named for a skating move built on multiple pivots.
- Elisabeth Tarullo — The Founder, Co-founder & CEO of Nolia Health
- Elisabeth (Liz) leads Nolia Health, a virtual care platform that brings family caregivers into the healthcare system to improve outcomes for older adults with chronic conditions. She started the company after caring for a parent and seeing how little support caregivers get. Nolia's oversubscribed $3.5M seed round was led by Village Global. Before founding Nolia, Liz was on the founding team of Amazon Care and held leadership roles at Hometeam and Venture for America. Hometeam is now Vesta.
- Kelly Schricker — Moderator, Decile Group / VC Lab
- Kelly is a founder turned investor who works with new and emerging fund managers at Decile Group, the company behind VC Lab. She has led VC Lab sessions for incoming managers on how to use the weeks before the program kicks off to close your first LPs. Before moving to the fund side, she was a SaaS founder who went through an accelerator and a scale school, ran Founder.University at LAUNCH, and invested in early-stage startups. She started her career producing more than 70 tech and nonprofit events across seven countries.
Expect specifics, not platitudes. Where the three seats agree, and where they don't.
What you'll learn
- How an allocator actually decides which emerging manager gets a first check — and what kills it
- What a GP does in the 90 days after a close, and how deployment pace gets set
- What venture money buys on the founder side that other capital can't
- Where the LP, the GP, and the founder flatly disagree about value
- Where capital is rotating next, and what that means for managers raising into 2027
About VC Lab
VC Lab (https://GoVCLab.com) is the leading venture capital accelerator worldwide. The four-month program is completely free for new and emerging managers.
Top managers have launched nearly 300 ethical and enduring venture capital firms and venture builders worldwide with VC Lab. The VC Lab program includes all of the tools needed to efficiently complete a close in six months or less.
VC Lab provides managers with weekly fund-building sprints to plan and launch the firm. Managers receive tactical advice from domain experts and join a supportive community of experts. VC Lab helps build essential fundraising skills and provides free access to the leading vertical SaaS platform for running a venture firm.
In order to complete the VC Lab program, managers must launch a fund and close on fresh capital. This normally requires at least 25 hours per week for new managers and less time for emerging managers.
Learn more at https://GoVCLab.com and apply to the program at https://FI.co/apply/vc
In order to complete the VC Lab program, managers must launch a fund and close on fresh capital. This normally requires at least 25 hours per week for new managers and less time for emerging managers.
Learn more at https://GoVCLab.com and apply to the program at https://FI.co/apply/vc
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