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

David Teten

Richard Dukas, CEO, Dukas Linden Public Relations , said, “If you don’t have a website and have no material online presence, you likely won’t get past the first hurdle with potential investors.”. For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update.

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

David Teten

Membership in the Meetup is open exclusively to: Institutional investors in private markets (VC, growth, buyout, distressed, etc.) Totem is a tool that centralizes all the data about our companies’ management, metrics, investment history, co-investors and cap table tracking.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Thomson Reuters data shows that around $10 billion of LP money went into VCs per year pre bubble. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. The Funding Problem.

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

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. 4) Originate investments.

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

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process.

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Who Invests In Investors: Homebrew LP Shares VC Performance Goals, Importance of Diversity & What They Look For In New Funds

Hunter Walker

As you know, the standard ”excess return” and “diversification” benefits attributed to venture are widely debated among institutional investors. An investor needs much more than patient capital and an appetite for illiquidity. As a result, we have to rely on the qualitative metrics previously discussed.

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