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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. 9% (1 / 12). Source: Knowledge.VC , based on scraping firm websites .

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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. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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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. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.