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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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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. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The income these investments generate then help fund the operations of those organizations or capital investment (e.g.

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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. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

At HOF Capital, we support our companies through 7 main levers (i.e., 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. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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

David Teten

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. Boldstart uses both Zapier and Catalytic for this purpose.

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How to Scale Early-Stage Investing

David Teten

Before making the decision to join ff Venture Capital , I did some research on early-stage tech investing as an asset class and how it’s evolving. Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. They’re also inflation-hedged.

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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. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The income these investments generate then help fund the operations of those organizations or capital investment (e.g.

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