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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

Version One has made only one investment in the region ( Headout , a fast growing marketplace for travel experiences) and I had written a small LP cheque into an emerging fund manager ( 1947 Rise , run by the awesome Shiva Sangwan ). I had only a few connections in India before this trip.

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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. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. We plan to raise $2.5m

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

David Teten

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12).

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Announcing Version One Fund III

Version One Ventures

And we also look at companies that are creating the best product for a specific vertical – including bio/healthcare and other emerging tech. and Canada, offering portfolio companies strong networks and resources on both sides of the border. And last but not least, we thank our investors, the LPs. Acknowledgements and gratitude.

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Why VCs Explaining “It Was Only 4% Of Our Fund” Is Misleading Minimization When a High Flying Startup Implodes.

Hunter Walker

Even with aggressive recycling, the average fund doesn’t have capital available to support every portfolio company through every round. So the follow-on support that went into a later write-down came at the expense of other companies in the portfolio, some of whom would have been more accretive to the fund.

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Seed Investing & Dark Dealflow: You Lose 100% Of The Deals You Don’t See

Hunter Walker

New Areas of Interest That Our Portfolio Doesn’t Yet Represent – SaaS, Marketplaces, Commerce, Autonomous Robotics, Financial Services/FinTech. These are some of the verticals that our portfolio suggests we have interest and a POV. Maybe it helps us, maybe it helps founders, maybe it helps other investors too.