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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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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. Sebastian Soler, CEO of Knowledge.VC , observes, “Structured, accurate and accessible data never really existed before for the private markets, at scale. 4) Manage deal flow.

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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Otherwise, private owners tend to have unrealistic expectations or an arbitrary sale price expectation. Intermediaries.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page.

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Join me at Alpha Innovation Required conference, Sep. 18-19, NYC

David Teten

AIR Summit is a membership organization whose flagship event is the annual AIR Summit event, an invitation-only gathering of senior people across the industry. billion, and 12 have been acquired for more than $6 billion in aggregate since presenting at the AIR Summit. Website: www.airmemberships.com. NYC Agenda: AIR Summit 5.0.

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

There are different flavors of family investment offices today, some are “single family” offices which invest on behalf of one uber wealthy family and their descendants whereas others are “multi-family” that might aggregate the wealth of a number of rather wealthy but not uber wealthy families. Insurance Companies.

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

Agile VC

There are different flavors of family investment offices today, some are “single family” offices which invest on behalf of one uber wealthy family and their descendants whereas others are “multi-family” that might aggregate the wealth of a number of rather wealthy but not uber wealthy families. Insurance Companies.