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

David Teten

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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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. A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . Out of 125 funds in the database, 33 state they invest in 1 type of technology (e.g.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. Understanding the market and establishing product/market fit is a critical seed-stage milestone. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 billion in 2013.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Need a database/back end solution?

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But wherever you stand on that, there’s one very real consequence of this explosion in seed funding: There has not been a corresponding explosion in investors willing to lead the next round, the so-called Series A. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages.