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Report Examines Where the Top VC Firms Are Investing

ReadWriteStart

According to that report, over the past year the top 30 firms participated in 663 unique deals (almost a quarter of all deals) with amounting to almost $9 billion in investment. Healthcare was the number 2 sector for both the deal numbers and deal size.).

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

David Teten

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe advertises that “60% of WCAS XII portfolio companies benefit from repeat management.” A true industry luminary will help in deal flow & differentiation .

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Top 3 Startup Winner: Happenstance

The Startup Magazine

FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. Nearly 90 percent responded positively when asked if they would be interested in telling their companies’ stories as a form of advertising, through a platform like Happenstance.

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Why You Need to Take 50 Coffee Meetings

Both Sides of the Table

The moment a big job is advertised you’re fawked. Increase your deal flow. You’re a candidate. You’re thinking about your next big gig. You want the primo role. Hot company. Senior title. Lots of responsibility. Cuz there are 20 people who have the exact qualifications as the job spec will suggest.

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Startup Winner – Yip Yap

The Startup Magazine

FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. And, we promise to keep these beliefs central as we continue product development, formulate advertising strategies and pursue partnerships. CEO Name : Angela Smith.

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Foundry Group Next

Feld Thoughts

It’s also been fun – a great way to get close to new managers, build lasting personal relationships, and see deal flow for our Foundry Group investing activity. And to make the the lawyers in our lives happy, we need to say that in no way is this blog post an offer to sell securities or an advertisement of us raising a new fund.

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How universities can keep alumni excited and connected

David Teten

This helps create diversified deal flow and closed investments. As an example of cross-alumni SIG cooperation: HBS Alumni Angels of NY organizes periodic pitch nights geared to women, African-American, Latino, Arab, and LBGT entrepreneurs, joint with all the relevant HBS and Harvard affinity groups.