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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

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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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. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G. 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. 9% (1 / 12).

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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

Anne Dinneen: Nothing has contributed more to the growth of the Irvine endowment over the years than our venture portfolio. For an investor like Irvine, who can embrace the asset class’ illiquidity and long time horizon, venture has produced significant returns with less capital at risk.

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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.