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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . 3) Raise capital. Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G.

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Where Do Venture Capital Dollars Actually Come From? This Visual Explains

Agile VC

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. Many large institutions from the list above invest directly in VC funds, but others from the same categories will invest indirectly through a range of different intermediaries. Insurance Companies.

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. Many large institutions from the list above invest directly in VC funds, but others from the same categories will invest indirectly through a range of different intermediaries. Subscribe here for more. Insurance Companies.

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Disruptable Pattern #5: Institutional investors are eager to cut larger checks rather than smaller ones. In aggregate, angels are significant investors. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

GLG continued to build it’s expert consulting network in the years to follow to become one of the top primary research tools for institutional investors because they have helped their customers to make things simple quickly. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

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