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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Founder of Duncan Capital LP , Joe Duncan is a FinTech entrepreneur, with a strong background in Cryptocurrency and Artificial Intelligence.

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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. We are heavy users of DocSend , a secure content sharing and tracking platform that can be used to seamlessly share recurring materials with potential LPs.

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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

He surmises that LPs aren’t buying the argument that large funds don’t perform. Beyond the fact that LP capital commitments don’t prove anything about returns, however, large funds are likely much more resilient to a few bad years than small funds are. But why would any LP ever drop out of such a fund?

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

David Teten

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. 2) Market .

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

The nature of LP investors can vary widely, but the bulk of the capital in the VC ecosystem comes from large institutions like pension funds, endowments of universities and hospitals, charitable foundations, insurance companies, very wealthy families (aka family offices), and corporations. Insurance Companies. Advisory Firms.

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

Agile VC

The nature of LP investors can vary widely, but the bulk of the capital in the VC ecosystem comes from large institutions like pension funds, endowments of universities and hospitals, charitable foundations, insurance companies, very wealthy families (aka family offices), and corporations. Insurance Companies. Advisory Firms.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And all the security and backups were being kind of managed by this company. And I guess what it means in practice is companies have shares, which are securities like stocks that can be traded out there. How did it come on your radar for the first time?

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