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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. I’ve listed below my current social media toolkit. I can only do so much unpaid work for the social media companies. Tech stack. Crunchbase.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

2) Marketing. See How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . 6) Due diligence. We also have created a proprietary tool, Oasys, which programmatically identifies very high-caliber technical teams.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

2) Marketing. See How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . 6) Due diligence. We also have created a proprietary tool, Oasys, which programmatically identifies very high-caliber technical teams.

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

David Teten

For both origination and due diligence, a host of companies aspire to be the “Bloomberg of private companies”, including CB Insights , Crunchbase , DataFox , FuelUp , fundsUP , Mattermark , Qodeo , Quid , Tracxn , Unomy.com , and Zirra. 5) Due diligence. Talent Relationship Management tools (e.g., 6) Negotiate deal.

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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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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Detailed due diligence. MCM Capital ( case study ) is a rare example of a lower middle-market private equity fund with a proactive social media strategy. Take advantage of social media and emerging platforms such as AngelList. Profiled initially. Target Selected. 10,000 [v]. Negotiated with. of submissions).