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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

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Content editing: Owning multi-media workflows – combine an image with text, music with video, or animation with a voiceover.

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

The internet had a massive impact on the media industry, as the reporting of news became a commodity few are willing to pay for. Source: Ben Thompson The missed opportunity of Media The realization that most people do not want to pay for the “core” product called news came late. And make some money along the way.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

View from Seed

DC: Short-term: Do-it-yourself (DIY) social media influencers in the United States with 100K+ followers. Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. Just a few years ago, we discovered products on social media, then went to an online retailer to make the purchase.

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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 Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Mucker Lab

So when an investment thesis becomes popular, when a new technology becomes available, when a new media consumption platform becomes dominant, if we believe in the trend, we have to “seed” an investment within the first three years and hope to “harvest” 5–10 years later. Vertical integration of different funding risks.

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A reflection on a decade: 10 lessons after 10 years in VC

Version One Ventures

In fact, a recommendation from a founder we passed on is one of our best performing portfolio companies! However, this is not to say that I don’t spend time on nor invest in AI, dev tools, vertical SaaS, marketplaces, etc. (as as our portfolio shows ). Be a generalist and a specialist.

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