David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 1) Manage the firm .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The easy way to do this: Provide a central database of ALL SIGs and the current officers leading them. Share a database of elite fellowships/support programs appropriate for alumni, comparable to the fellowships database that Harvard maintains for undergrads. Alumni databases are typically incomplete and very stale.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Database Florida America 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Many of the growth equity firms have had outbound dialing programs for years. Growth equity firms typically target profitable businesses that are often not technical in nature. Perhaps outbound dialing / emailing programs worked well for growth equity firms in their core business. These kind of companies were seldom startups.

Programming 294

Programming Entrepreneur Private Equity Equity 294

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Build and maintain large email database. Question : How many PE firms are in your databases? View more presentations.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

David Teten

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I wrote recently about Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Since then, I’ve talked with a number of other firms, and greatly expanded my database: Who are the major Revenue-Based (RBI) Investing VCs? Major options include: Traditional equity venture capital and private equity.

SBIC 60

SBIC SBA Cap Table Database 60

Lightspeed Venture Partners

AUGUST 17, 2014

CEO and co-founder Vincent Yang, a mathematician by training, had built a system while he was at Summit Partners, a private equity firm, to comb the Web looking for investment opportunities. The team developed unique natural language processing and text mining capabilities which are keys to building this database.

B2B 96

B2B Revenue Private Equity Artificial Inteligence 96

David Teten

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You can also look in online investment banker databases. Because of Axial’s unique model, they are integrally involved in much of a transaction process, so have a very different dataset about their advisors than other databases. The frequent marketers are not logically also the optimal investment banker for you.

Investment Bankers 60

Investment Bankers Database Private Equity SEC 60

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. Obviously they see big things in Wildfire. 4mm in Series A.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Side note: LA seems to have had some success in mega deals led by private equity firms as evidenced by DemandMedia and Chris DeWolf’s latest company backed by more than $20 million in private equity. Recruiting will be different – You can build a great management team in LA.

Silicon Valley 290

Silicon Valley Technology Los Angeles Southern California 290

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

When it comes to seeking financing, small businesses say they are most willing to use bank loans as a financing option (70.7%), followed by angel financing (35.7%), private equity (28.1%) and venture capital (27.2%).

Small Business 145

Small Business Hiring Private Equity Angel Financing 145

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. The industry is now dominated by hedge funds and other quant driven approaches.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2017

There has been solid growth in the number of middle market firms in the US, according to the Middle Market Power Index conducted by Commercial Database company, Dun and Bradstreet. Between March 2011 and March 2016 the number of middle market firms nearly doubled, up 87 percent, while employment and revenues did double.

Database 60

Database Differentiation Revenue Programming 60

David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

The Economics of Private Equity Funds demonstrates that the VC industry survives mostly on fee-based income (of which larger funds have a proportionally larger amount). Therefore, large funds are beneficiaries of survivorship bias, given the inherent conservatism of institutional LPs. The problems with this evidence are threefold.

LP 114

LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

Chairman Alan Todd was formerly Founder and CEO of KnowledgePlanet, the largest cloud-based learning management system, which was acquired by a private equity consortium; and Founder and CEO of KnowledgeSoft, the largest IT training company in the mid-Atlantic region, which was acquired by Technicsource. and Goldman Sachs.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Private Equity Fractional CTO Cofounder 84

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

People who would never bother with an entrepreneur’s blog, who may not even see themselves as entrepreneurs: shopkeepers and policy makers, CFO’s and private equity managers, and even future entrepreneurs. Almost any startup - in any industry - can use AWS to find and serve customers.

Lean 167

Lean United States Startup SEO 167

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

CB Insights regularly produces data-driven reports and analysis on venture capital, private equity, angel investment, mergers & acquisitions, IPOs and emerging high-growth industries. Mattermarks goal is to track growth signals from all private tech, media and telecom companies. 6) CB Insights. 7) Mattermark.

Curation 167

Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

EMC, the US firm whose software is used by companies to analyze their databases, has paid $450m to buy Israeli start-up XtremeIO. billion in venture capital and private equity funds. The company’s customers include aircraft giant Boeing and more than 500 hospitals around the world. EMC BUYS XTREMIO FOR $450M.

San Francisco 90

San Francisco New Jersey Private Equity 90

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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. Plus, their javascript Library is real time so you get notifications on any database update. Need a database/back end solution?

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. Impact tech investors include Bridges Fund Managements, DBL, Accion, Elevar equity and Patamar, among others.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174