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What Founders Need to Know: You Were Funded for a Liquidity Event – Start Looking

Steve Blank

VC’s raise money from their investors (limited partners like pension funds) and then spread their risk by investing in a number of startups (called a portfolio). BTW, Angel investors do not have limited partners, and often invest for reasons other than just for financial gain (e.g., The Deal With the Devil. FDA approvals?

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Founder and CEO Revolutionize the Breastfeeding World Through her Company

Hearpreneur

Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel. How did you come up with your business name? Ima means mother in Hebrew and Lac is for lactation.

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

David Teten

A more efficient approach to fundraising than haphazard networking is to mine the data exhaust from the limited partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

CB Insights , Preqin and Mattermark were also named as platforms that are regularly updated by GPs. We are taking a mathematical (weighted coefficients estimation, probabilistic modelling, etc), human-system hybrid approach to early stage investing through this tool. How do VCs originate investments? All data has been cleaned.

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Are You Selling Your Company? Be Careful with Financial Buyers!

Scott Edward Walker

Moreover, because most financial buyers are set-up as funds (which have their own limited partner investors) that typically expire in 10 years, the return on their investment must happen relatively quickly. The deals are typically extremely complex because the name of the game is debt.

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Does Elon Musk + Peter Thiel = 3 or 1.5

Professor VC

one company running out of cash and another with cash but searching for a business model). I was a Limited Partner in Angel Investors II (Ron Conway's angel fund) that was an investor in Confinity. Often times those involve trading within a venture capital portfolio or between two venture firms portfolios.

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