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

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 1) Manage the firm .

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

David Teten

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job.

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

There are different flavors of family investment offices today, some are “single family” offices which invest on behalf of one uber wealthy family and their descendants whereas others are “multi-family” that might aggregate the wealth of a number of rather wealthy but not uber wealthy families. Insurance Companies.

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Where Do Venture Capital Dollars Actually Come From? This Visual Explains

Agile VC

There are different flavors of family investment offices today, some are “single family” offices which invest on behalf of one uber wealthy family and their descendants whereas others are “multi-family” that might aggregate the wealth of a number of rather wealthy but not uber wealthy families. Insurance Companies.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

“As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models.” As big businesses begin to measure their impact, they begin to show it is fundamental to their future business models.” Sir Ronald Cohen. Israel, a hub for Impact Tech?

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Crisis Shmisis: Q2 2010 Closes with 40 deals and more than $400 million raised in Israel (Deal Summary)

VC Cafe

Looking at the aggregated list gives a quick sense of what funds are actively making investments. May 31, 2010 - SimilarGroup (formerly known as SimilarWeb ) announced that it has raised $1 million in its series A round of funding from Naftali Investments, Docor International, Yossi Vardi, Omer Kaplan, Liron Rose, and private investors.