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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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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

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. Over the past decade, angels have averaged more than $20 billion annually in the US.