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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. 6) Negotiate deal.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. As of the beginning of 2017, ffVC spun out Totem into a separate business. TruthFinder and Intelius provide basic background vetting. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc.