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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. The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. 2) Raise capital. These same tools are used by companies raising capital.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

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. Startup companies inherently have no brand; we leverage our brand and networks to promote theirs. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers.

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

David Teten

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners.

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How to Scale Early-Stage Investing

David Teten

Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. From the point of view of a limited partner, the great challenge is scaling the business. What was striking was what an attractive asset class it was. They’re also inflation-hedged.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

While the historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship, some GPs actively participate in LP/GP communities to find and build relationships with potential LPs. Some respondents use specialist virtual data room providers; Intralinks or SecureDocs were used by 8% of respondents.

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The actual partners of a VC firm (GPs) will typically invest a minimum of 1% of the total size of their fund,* though frequently this percentage is substantially higher (especially in many of the best funds). Insurance Companies.

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

Agile VC

Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The actual partners of a VC firm (GPs) will typically invest a minimum of 1% of the total size of their fund,* though frequently this percentage is substantially higher (especially in many of the best funds). Insurance Companies.