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

David Teten

We make a point of keeping our records updated in the major data-trackers tracking the VC industry, e.g., CB Insights , Crunchbase , Dow Jones , Mattermark , Palico , Preqin , Pitchbook , and ThomsonReuters , since they are a source of data to LPs and to potential co-investors interested in us. . 6) Negotiate deal.

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

David Teten

Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats.