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“Their baseline knowledge of Silicon Valley probably comes from HBO’s Silicon Valley.” How Alyssa Bereznak Covers Tech for The Ringer.

Hunter Walker

In other words, anyone who clicks on a story of mine probably knows what it’s like to be a human online in the year 2017, but they only have a vague understanding of the forces and personalities that shape the tech industry. They don’t know what “due diligence” means. TechCrunch is probably not in their daily news diet.

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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. 5) Due diligence. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews.

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 6) Due diligence. I personally use Salesforce.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

For both deal origination and due diligence, a host of companies aspire to be the “Bloomberg of private companies”. We were keen to understand what resources VCs use to support their due diligence effort? CB Insights , Preqin and Mattermark were also named as platforms that are regularly updated by GPs.