David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

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.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

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. So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

The funding for the incubator of accelerator may come from the principals running the incubator (as I believe is the case for AngelPad , i/o ventures etc.) The incubators invest usually for an equity stake and buy equity at a extremely low valuation (for example, 7% for $15,000, which implies a pre-money valuation of less than $200,000).

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Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

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.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” As a result, most firms have independent internal groups that periodically analyze valuations.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40