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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Real Ventures , an early-stage, Canadian-based fund, runs a two-day Founder Camp every six months. Note this model amounts to lead-generation for the expert network, so you may be able to negotiate a lower rate than normal. Here are a few other examples of services which do meet these two tests: Bootcamp. Numerous VCs.

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

David Teten

Keren Moynihan, CEO, Boss Insights , said, “Last week at an industry function, we asked a high rolling VC, “how’s your lead gen?” So we probed, ‘Oh, so you don’t need a qualified lead generation tool then?’ Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda.