article thumbnail

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. Cobalt helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

article thumbnail

ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. See you next time.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. For entrepreneurs, it's quite the same.

article thumbnail

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. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners.

article thumbnail

10 Keys To Making Money By Investing In Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K.

article thumbnail

10 Steps To Investing Successfully In New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K.

article thumbnail

Proceed With Caution Selecting Startup Investments

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K.