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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. 6) Negotiate deal. Kushim , Totem , and VisibleVC focus on serving this need among VCs.

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

David Teten

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data. 7) Negotiate .

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Meet the 32 Israeli Centaurs that reached $100M in ARR

VC Cafe

But becoming a Unicorn, or receiving a billion dollar valuation is no longer an indication of growth. I’m excited for the talent that will spin out of those companies to create the next generation of B2C stars coming out of Israel. ” Bessemer. Today there are over 1,000 unicorns globally.

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The 2021 Israeli Unicorn Map

VC Cafe

billion a 125% increased compared to the equivalent period in 2020, the number of Unicorns, private companies valued at $1 billion or more has grown significantly, with several companies achieving “Decacorn” status – achieving valuations of $10 billion and up, including eToro , soon to complete a SPAC merger, and Rapyd payments.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

125 theses so far submitted by investors into the OpenVC database. Valuation: $1M – $3M. Out of 125 funds in the database, 33 state they invest in 1 type of technology (e.g. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . Our analysis is based on two complementary datasets: . Check Size: $50K to $200K.

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Startup Tools

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Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development. You’ve got everyone who ever breathed in that database. Simple editing. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.