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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. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. Most of our companies will need to raise further rounds.

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

David Teten

Our proprietary data science tool cumulatively looks at 100+ factors within 6 macroscopic categories: Team, Financial Performance, Customer and PR traction, Industry and Competition, Product and Brand value, Valuation, and Exit probability, to quantify an investment “Merit Score”.