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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

The combination of services and infrastructure traditionally housed under one roof – underwriting, research, sales & trading, supported by large back office operations, and monitored by compliance systems – will remain at the sector’s core. At least for investment banks the answer is not so clear cut.

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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. 3) Raise capital.

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How To Disrupt The Investing Business, With Katina Stefanova (Ex-Bridgewater Management Committee)

David Teten

The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost. How are investors thinking and protecting against volatility in their portfolios?

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

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Entrepreneurs need to hit a happy medium with backers, not giving away too much but not making overly aggressive demands. Patent trolls purchase portfolios containing patents and sue companies for infringing them. They also need to decide whether to structure terms as an equity deal or a convertible security deal. Patent Trolls.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Applicaster helps content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile broadcast experiences. Applicaster - Company Website. Betterview - Company Website.

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

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