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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. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12). 1) Market fund.

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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. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G. 4) Originate investments.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

There’s an increasing interest from institutional investors in particular, but also high-net-worth individuals, private banks and a variety of other players who are thinking to make more impact investments than we’ve seen in the past couple of years.”.