article thumbnail

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

David Teten

ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. I use the vendors of PE/VC investing data I listed above to track the interests of potential private equity/VC coinvestors, and selectively introduce investee companies as we build out a syndicate. . Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

article thumbnail

How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. For example, a seed firmshould be able to give advice about how to approach VCs, which VCsobviously dont need to do; whereas VCs should be able to giveadvice about how to hire an "executive team," which is not an issuein the seed stage. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time.

article thumbnail

How to Raise a Seed Round: Three Basic Tips for Founders

Scott Edward Walker

The way the investor thinks about it is that, if you can’t figure out your way to network your way to [an investor],… then you’re unlikely to be able to network your way into hiring a great team, or network your way into selling your product to customers. (at In fact, in this new fundraising environment (with syndicates on AngelList , etc.),