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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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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Content editing: Owning multi-media workflows – combine an image with text, music with video, or animation with a voiceover. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios.

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring.

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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. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12).

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories.

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Bringing Transparency to Startup Data: Our Data Repository Project

Version One Ventures

It’s worth noting that SaaS companies could probably do something interesting with all their data in aggregate. Some VCs have data and engineering teams manually wrangle non-standard financial statements and KPIs from their portfolio and pitches and create an internal repository for their own use. 2: Privately held operational.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Community was about things we didn’t have as much familiarity with, i.e., social media, game mechanics, community building, etc.