Twelve partners walked out of top venture firms and now steer roughly $2B in new funds

Asked:

“Which VC partners left big firms to start their own funds since 2024? List the person, old firm, new fund, and fund size.”

A sourced shortlist — not an exhaustive census — of 12 partners who left prominent venture franchises (Sequoia, Founders Fund, Index, Bessemer, a16z, Khosla, Peak XV) to launch 7 new firms announced between January 2024 and August 2026. Announced capital across the seven vehicles totals about $1.98–2.03 billion; sizes marked as targets are money being raised, not closed.

closed / debut raisedtarget / being raisedbubble area = announced fund size ($M)

Evantic ($400M, Matt Miller ex-Sequoia) and GPx (>$500M being raised, Brian Singerman ex-Founders Fund) are the two largest single vehicles on the list. bloomberg.com · seedlist.com

Chemistry Ventures is the only three-firm spinout — Kurzweil (Bessemer), Goldberg (Index) and Shen (a16z) closed a $350M debut and were later reported raising $500M for fund II. newsonclick.com

Peak XV alone lost five managing directors to two 2026 spinouts — Mettle Capital ($350–400M target) and Ambition Capital ($250M target). economictimes.com

Only three of the seven vehicles are confirmed closed (Chemistry, Evantic, Relentless, together $830M); the other roughly $1.15–1.2B is targets or in-progress raises. f4.fund

The shortlist, fund by fund

Person(s)	Old firm	New fund	Size	Status	Timing	Source

Sourced shortlist of VC partner spinouts, Jan 1 2024 – Aug 31 2026: 7 new firms, 12 individually named partners, drawn from 3 result sets (10 founder-level rows plus a 10-row cross-check table). Fund size is the announced amount in the cited article; “target” and “being raised” are not closes. Departure dates are rarely stated, so post-2024 refers to the launch or announcement, not a verified departure date. Excluded: funds with undisclosed size (Hanabi, Lazarte), Cambrian Fund II (not a new firm), and rows outside the named tier-1 franchises.