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

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process.

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5 Questions VCs Never Answer, Answered by a VC | #BOSSOI

View from Seed

Our investment size may differ slightly from one company to the next, but it tends to be driven entirely by situation-specific factors (needs of the company, syndicate composition, anticipated reserves, etc) … and not based on our belief. For SaaS: At least $100K in MRR. For ecommerce: >$500K revenue/month.

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

David Teten

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Later stage investors are using for sourcing private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Step 11: Exit”. I used Ipreo heavily at one of my prior VC funds.