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

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. Most of our companies will need to raise further rounds.

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

David Teten

A major angel group uses Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. 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. 3) Raise capital.

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The Role of Angel Groups Going Forward

This is going to be BIG.

This week, I spoke to one of the longest running and most active angel groups in the country, the New York Angels. Luckily for all of us, including the New York Angels themselves, the ecosystem has bloomed. An angel belonging to a group could find more dealflow. 2) A Platform for Visibility.

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Democratization of Angel Investing

Professor VC

In many respects, the service is similar to the way Angel Groups operate, or at least the way Sand Hill Angels, where I was a long time member does. The site was designed with the very simple registration process we are all demanding, including checking a couple of boxes to prove you are an accredited investor.

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

And what happens if you don’t get into the one VC that gets into Cornerstone On Demand (ffVC company, now the 10th largest SaaS company in the world)? But, the traditional wealth management industry does not make fees on angel investing, so it’s an underpublicized opportunity. In aggregate, angels are significant investors.