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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel. This tool serves to standardize & automate the process of collecting inbound deal flow.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel. This tool serves to standardize & automate the process of collecting inbound deal flow.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. – Provide hands-on operational support for portfolio companies.

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

David Teten

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 4) Manage deal flow. 6) Negotiate deal.

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Why B2B Marketplaces Are Red-Hot

Haystack

In particular, I would highlight three red-hot companies in particular: Choco , Rekki , and Faire ( disclosure : Faire is a Lightspeed portfolio company). Additionally, this new crop of builders are bringing a sophisticated level of product design expertise (some from consumer-facing companies and products) to these newer marketplace models.

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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. She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ 3) Raise capital. Her answer? ‘I