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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. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 1) Market fund.

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What Is NextView’s Focus? Another Stroll Through Our Portfolio

Rob Go

This is why I’ve made a habit of profiling our portfolio quantitatively and why we write summaries announcing pretty much all of our new investments. So, here is our annual quantitative summary of our portfolio. A Stroll Through Our Portfolio. Type of Product and Business: Consumer vs. B2B. 5 are in other locations.

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Opportunistic & Thematic Investing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

We also invest only in software & internet enabled businesses. And we invest in US-based startups, primarily on the US east coast though we’ll consider other parts of country on a selective basis (roughly 15-20% of our portfolio is in the SF Bay area). What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Final Close: The Story Behind NextView's Own Fundraise ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

We make initial investments of $250-500K in the seed rounds of software and internet startups and reserve capital for follow-on rounds. Our portfolio has grown to 15 companies today, the bulk of which is on the US East Coast and roughly half the companies have already progressed from the seed stage to completing Series A rounds.

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What Milestones Are Needed to Raise a Series A? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

At NextView, we spend a substantial portion of our time trying to help our portfolio companies prepare for growth as “venture scale” businesses. 5) Plausible monetization – If you’re an e-commerce or B2B SaaS company, it’s harder to raise a Series A as a pre-revenue company. Author howerl.