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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. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. Most of our companies will need to raise further rounds.

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

David Teten

645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field. Carta , Captable.io , Certent , EquityEffect , and ShareWorks by Morgan Stanley track private company cap tables. . Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value. .