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# What is the expected lifetime of a venture fund?
Venture funds are investing in early stage companies and as such, their lifecycle is in line with how long it takes for those companies to build a significant company and create an according amount of value. A fund could expect to have the majority of its portfolio companies to have liquidity events before ten years, but it would not be unusual for companies to still be creating value at that point.
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