Venture counsel for family offices, from every side of the table.
Prescient Road advises family offices, in the US and internationally, on entering venture capital as an asset class.
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Prescient Road advises family offices, in the US and internationally, on entering venture capital as an asset class.
Start a ConversationMost families know they want exposure to venture before they know how to build it. Prescient Road works across the full arc of a first or growing venture program.
How venture fits within a broader portfolio, and what a first allocation should look like.
Pacing, sizing, and vintage-year balance for a first or growing program.
Working sessions for principals and family members building confidence in the asset class.
Finding and evaluating venture managers worth a family's capital.
Reading past fund brands and headline performance to how returns are actually generated.
Evaluating direct and co-investment opportunities alongside managers and other families.
Prescient Road reflects more than two decades spent investing in and building technology companies, and building investment firms themselves.
General Partner raising and investing institutional capital
LP investing in other managers
Direct investor in more than 90 companies
Company founder, building from the ground up
Board member of public and private companies
The approach starts from how returns are actually generated, not fund brands, conventional allocation models, or headline performance.
Paul Lee is the founder of Prescient Road, where he works with family offices and venture investors on manager selection, portfolio construction, and direct investment opportunities.
Over more than two decades investing in and building technology companies, Paul co-founded BuildersVC, where he serves as Managing Partner, and founded Roniin LLC, where he served as Founder and CEO. He was previously a General Partner at Lightbank, where he led early-stage investments including Udemy, and a founding partner of Peacock Equity Fund, a venture investment platform formed by NBC Universal and GE Capital. The through line: not only investing in companies, but building investment firms and companies from the ground up.
Today, Paul works with family offices in the US and internationally that are entering venture capital as an asset class. Select work with emerging managers keeps him close to how the next generation of venture firms is being built, and to what LPs will be asked to evaluate.
BuildersVC, Co-Founder
Roniin LLC, Founder & CEO
Lightbank, General Partner
Peacock Equity Fund, Founding Partner
Udemy · Sprout Social
Carbon Health · Lifeway Foods
Invested in more than 90 companies across early-stage venture and direct investment
Prescient Road works with a small number of families at a time. If your family is building or evaluating a venture program, write directly.
paul@prescientroad.com