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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. 6) Negotiate deal. Accompany focuses on this use case.

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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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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. Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content. We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. 7) Negotiate .

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

The goal is to intelligently structure the information collected and combine it with additional information scraped from the web and social media. Some early stage investors mine data from crowdfunding sites, angel group platforms, and product launch lists to identify investment opportunities.