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This Week in VC Careers
Week of February 23 – March 1, 2026
Eleven roles this week. Three at funds writing their first check. One partner-track seat at a $2B growth firm that hasn't posted publicly. The market is tighter, the competition is sharper — and the people who find these seats are the ones who were already in the room.
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“The best seats in venture don't go to the loudest résumé. They go to the person who already knew the fund was hiring.”
— Dispatch, Issue 31
Chapter 47: This Week in VC Careers
11 roles · Sequoia, a16z, Bessemer, and 2 stealth funds · Opens in 3 minutes
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Chapter 46: The Seed Fund Playbook
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Every Sunday at 6 AM, Dispatch lands before the week starts — before the LinkedIn scroll, before the coffee cools, before someone else gets the intro.
The subject line alone tells you whether this week's issue is worth 4 minutes. It usually is.
Issue Performance · Chapter 47
Industry avg: 22%
Industry avg: 8%
Meridian Ventures
$680M AUM · San Francisco, CA
Not posted publicly
Senior Associate
Partner-track confirmed
Stage
Series A / B
Check Size
$3M – $15M
Focus
Enterprise SaaS, Infrastructure
Deadline
Rolling — moves fast
Editorial Take
Meridian doesn't recruit from job boards. They reach out to people who are already in the conversation — analysts who've seen the deal flow, operators who've built the product category they're no...
The last three people in this role are now GPs at their own funds.
10 more roles like this in Chapter 47
Why Dispatch writes it this way
Job boards describe the role. Dispatch describes the opportunity — who's in the seat now, what they've done since, and whether this fund actually promotes from within.
This Week's Fund Breakdown
“I applied to the Meridian role the morning Chapter 31 landed. I was the third person they spoke to. I got the offer.”
— Former reader, now Senior Associate
February 14, 2026
To whoever writes Dispatch,
I've been a reader since Issue 12. At the time I was a second-year analyst at Goldman, modeling LBOs at midnight and wondering if I'd made a wrong turn somewhere around the Wharton application.
Chapter 38 had a role at Lightspeed — not the well-known one, the operating partner seat that never makes it to LinkedIn. I sent a cold email the same morning using the framing you suggested. They responded in four hours. I had an offer three weeks later.
I start March 3rd. My title is Associate, Lightspeed Venture Partners. I'm still not sure it's real.
The newsletter is four minutes of my week. The return was the rest of my career. Keep writing it.
With genuine gratitude,
Marcus Thiele · Associate, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Former Analyst, Goldman Sachs TMT · Wharton MBA '24
Also heard from readers this month
“Chapter 44 had the Accel role. I knew the fund, but not the opening. I was the first to apply.”
Priya Nair
Senior Associate, Accel · Ex-McKinsey
“I read it on the train every Sunday. It's the only newsletter I've never unsubscribed from.”
Daniel Osei
MBA Candidate, HBS '26
“The editorial framing tells you things the JD never would. Who left, why, what the fund actually values.”
Sophie Lindqvist
Analyst, Bessemer Venture Partners
1 in 3
readers who apply to a Dispatch-featured role report receiving a first-round response within 72 hours.
Bundled into every issue — the context around the roles
The Anatomy of a Seed Fund's First Close
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Why Operating Partners Are Becoming the New GPs
The Information
Benchmark's Quiet Expansion Into Enterprise Infrastructure
Bloomberg
How to Cold Email a VC (And Actually Get a Reply)
Dispatch, Issue 29
Each issue bundles 4–6 long reads that explain the market behind the roles — so you walk into interviews with context, not just a résumé.
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