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New Meetup on Building Tech Tools for Private Equity+VC Investors

David Teten

As one of the lead engineers at ff Venture Capital , I spend most of my day building custom software solutions that enhance our firm’s process–tools that range from portfolio investment management to co-investor and cap table tracking and more. We posted on our site a more in-depth overview of ff’s Tech Platform.

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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. Conduct an honest self-evaluation: can you realistically raise money from institutional investors, or should you focus on high net worths/family offices? Institutional investors in funds are typically conservative.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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

David Teten

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 .

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Why So Many Small Emerging Managers Don’t Use Placement Agents

David Teten

They had 154 visits, 97 due diligence requests, 33 second visits, and 12 reference requests, to ultimately produce 9 institutional investors. Using a placement agent is sometimes viewed as a negative signal by investors in the capacity-constrained world of emerging managers. Fundraising hacks for VC and private equity funds.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

It might appear that origination is becoming much easier because of new tools like AngelList and the SEC moving toward adoption of rules that will allow equity based crowdfunding. But in practice, these phenomena create a tremendous volume of startups, which investors then have to filter. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years. Mr. Parekh started his career at Goldman Sachs, developing the firm’s equities business in the Middle East, with high net worth family offices and sovereign wealth funds. Savage earned a BA in Political Philosophy from Yale University.