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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. But beyond that, not much. 9% (1 / 12).

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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. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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Seeking A Job in Start-Up Land

Seeing Both Sides

Are you more of a B2C type or a B2B type? The first company listed is an earlier stage company (either jungle or dirt road) and the second company is a later stage company (either dirt road or highway). full disclosure: tracx, 10gen and Savingstar are Flybridge portfolio companies). Here's the advice I give: .

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