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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. But beyond that, not much. 6) Negotiate deal.

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

David Teten

Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. 9) Accelerate portfolio company value.