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About this event

This 1.5-day conference, developed in collaboration with NVCA’s CFO Taskforce, focuses on the critical role senior operations professionals play in venture firms, and how they can provide value back to their partnerships. The agenda emphasizes best practices, technical topics, professional development, and industry related policy content, several opportunities for networking.

Participants will have the opportunity to develop functional expertise, troubleshoot shared challenges, and earn CPE credit hours for attending. Location: The Willard InterContinental, Washington DC Date: Wednesday October 14, 2026 – Thursday October 15, 2026 Pricing: NVCA Members – $700, Non-members – $2,250. This event is for employees of VC firms only. If you are a service provider looking to attend, a small number of sponsorship packages remain. Register here!

RAISE GP Day provides tactical sessions on fundraising, marketing, and firm-building, led by leading LPs, GPs and operators.

Open to 300 GPs and bridged directly into RAISE Week across San Francisco, the broadest gathering of LPs and emerging managers in venture capital.

What GP Day is:

• A full day of programming for venture managers — October 21, 2026, San Francisco

• Masterclasses taught by experienced operators and GPs

• LP panels featuring investors actively backing emerging managers

• Workshops on fundraising, marketing, and firm-building

• Open to 300 GPs who apply to RAISE

Applications open May 1, 2026. Join the RAISE GP Day community now to be notified the moment they do. Do you have questions about RAISE GP Day 2026? Read the full FAQ.

Q3 brought the US venture market a heavy dose of uncertainty: rates climbed as inflation surged, geopolitical tension kept markets guessing, and oil prices stayed elevated, but the more consequential shift for venture was company-specific. OpenAI and Anthropic both pushed back their IPOs, putting two of tech’s most closely watched liquidity events on hold and raising real questions for the quarter ahead: does capital deployment slow while GPs wait? Or do LPs keep committing on the bet that both IPOs still land, just later?

What you’ll learn

• Whether the OpenAI and Anthropic IPO delays are slowing capital deployment or simply repricing when liquidity arrives
• How rising rates, inflation, and geopolitical pressure are showing up in Q3 venture data
• What LPs should watch for before deciding whether to hold allocations steady through the delay

Featuring:

• Carly Roddy: Managing Director and Co-leads the Global Banking Venture Capital Coverage, J.P. Morgan
• Jennifer Cuello: Partner, EisnerAmper
• Kyle Stanford: Director, VC Research
• Shiloh Tillemann-Dick: Research Director, NVCA
• Victor Boyajian: Global Chair, Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies, Dentons

Join NVCA, in partnership with Foresight AI, for a panel on how fund finance and operations leaders are implementing durable systems for reporting, compliance, and institutional continuity as their firms scale across fund cycles. Returns build a firm’s reputation — but operational infrastructure is what lets it scale and endure. This panel brings together fund CFOs and COOs to discuss how they’re building durable back-office systems: institutional-grade LP reporting, audit-ready compliance workflows, and knowledge continuity that compounds across fund cycles. The conversation will cover where AI fits into that systems layer, the build-vs-buy tradeoff, and what operational readiness looks like to LPs conducting diligence on emerging and established managers alike