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

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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Top 10 Emerging Marketplaces for Chemical Industry in 2022

ReadWriteStart

Essentially, the scenario is that there are flexible aggregators as. Additionally, it provides trade financing, intelligence, analytics, and ERP integration. The website is a search engine for the chemical industry. Correspondingly, the chemical industry does not leave behind. Seller side platforms. Buyer side platforms.

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

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. No keyword data in analytics tools. That of course will mean more referring keyword data will disappear.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Rich Data Discovery Enhances Society The BlazingDB team is passionate about its ability to conduct and promote large scale analytics. Transformations, aggregations and joins at massive scale is where BlazingDB wins!

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