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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Is it no accident, then, that one of the founding fathers of venture capital, Don Valentine of Sequoia, also came from Fordham? Maybe a key to being in venture is a desire to help others? To be a good VC, you're going to offer up a lot of time to companies that may never pay back a dime--or even to deals you never wind up doing.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. Are investors allowed to come into deals that the fund does side by side with the fund? This creates a source of deal flow for investors who aren’t out there full time creating opportunities. Access to the partner.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

Venture capital and private equity firms meanwhile, will increasingly elect to move their portfolio companies to exits due to funding needs, pressure to return capital and improving business fundamentals.

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MAY 16, 2024

That means a lot of competition for the best deals and more difficulty in standing out. Then, they need to figure out a way to project that brand up above the venture community, like a Bat signal calling for the best founders to come and pitch them.

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SuperAngel.Fund

OCTOBER 27, 2023

See chart below showing global VC deal activity since 2015 (Source: Pitchbook & National Venture Capital Association Q3 2023 Venture Monitor First Look Report ) Over the past 11 quarters SuperAngel.Fund has maintained a disciplined, thoughtful and consistent strategy. We will continue pursuing this strategy.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Here are a few key things I’ve learned: While VCs work with entrepreneurs, they often need reminders to be entrepreneurial themselves—to strive to take on new projects that create community (and exclusive deal flow), teach them something new, or help them stand out.

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SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 19, 2024

If I am doing my job right the first time in “picking winners”, at least for a few subsequent rounds, our best deal flow should come from our existing portfolio. There were approximately 15k total deals completed representing $170 billion invested (see chart 1 below). since 2019.

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SuperAngel.Fund

APRIL 21, 2023

Our own data over the past two quarters has also shown new deals priced more reasonably, both for follow-on investments in our top performers, and for new companies as well. ” Per a Wall Street Journal article from November 2, 2022 : “Venture has outperformed other asset classes in prior down cycles.

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SuperAngel.Fund

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The second includes data that supports the top performance in venture capital coming from emerging/first time fund managers like ours vs larger funds. If you happen to come across impressive founders looking to raise capital within our areas of focus, I always appreciate you sharing those opportunities with me.

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Udu

APRIL 21, 2023

Inbound Platforms Inbound platforms specialize in helping firms source deals from a variety of sources, including venture capital firms, angel investors, and other private equity funds. Ideally, the platform will offer a diverse set of investment opportunities across different sectors, geographies, and deal sizes.

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SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 6, 2023

Our own data over the past two quarters has also shown new deals priced more reasonably, both for follow-on investments in our top performers, and for new companies as well. ” Per a Wall Street Journal article from November 2, 2022 : “Venture has outperformed other asset classes in prior down cycles. Thanks for reading!

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Insight Partners

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Financing led by RA Capital Management with participation from Insight Partners, NVentures, Catalio Capital Management, Eli Lilly and Company, Gaingels, and Cooley LLP Funds to support clinical development of lead programs and expansion of small molecule pipeline focused on high-value GPCR targets BOSTON, Sept.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Venture capital is basically the complete opposite. Sourcing You're seeing the majority of deals done in your stage and sector and you see nearly everything that gets announced that you really would have wanted to. Actually, it’s even worse than that. When you measure skews the analysis.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

The venture capital space is particularly attractive for investors as companies in AI, machine learning , and emerging tech often have high growth potential. Ample dry powder and a track record of returns in 2022, despite the slowdown in deal flow, continue to draw healthcare-specific funds.

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SuperAngel.Fund

JULY 14, 2023

Similarly, for General Partners (GPs) like me who manage venture capital funds, we are no different and I believe in practicing what you preach. If executed properly, Secondaries can be an extremely effective and lucrative way to acquire stakes in high-growth companies that are not actively raising capital.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

So you really can’t imagine and venture where your next deal is going to come from. You have to be open to the serendipity, but you have to be practiced in your approach to deal flow. We look to our LPs, which don’t just include well known tech folks, but they do.

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Startups Investing Deal Flow New York Stock Exchange 72

Axial

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Technology ranked 4th in deal flow but had the highest average pursuit rate, 8.76%, of all sectors. See below for the full Q3 deal activity overview on the Axial platform, and for a more detailed breakdown by industry, check out The SMB M&A Pipeline: Q3 2023. .”

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

Frost also said the fund is “seeing more deal flow opportunities” in private debt following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and other lenders, and that the fund was ready to take more risk to profit from such positions. This could rise further if the review gives the green light. You’re not going to get the returns of 6.8

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

So you really can’t imagine and venture where your next deal is going to come from. You have to be open to the serendipity, but you have to be practiced in your approach to deal flow. We look to our LPs, which don’t just include well known tech folks, but they do.

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Startups Investing Deal Flow New York Stock Exchange 52

Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

Most of what we've done more recently, you've probably seen on our deal flow reporting is bolt-on acquisitions for some of our larger portfolio companies. Below, a recent Money Maze podcast where Jo Taylor discusses his time with 3i which educated him in Venture capital and growth investing.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And so now we’ve built out the, the space further and our hopes are to launch additional products in the space over the next several years and really build a very multidimensional, multi-asset platform that will address private equity mostly in venture credit as well as as real estate. Are, are the parallels there at all?

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MAY 5, 2023

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. For me, I don’t mind sharing how I think about it.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

As deal flow increases, “we’ll get to a more natural balance and you won’t have lenders having to do silly things,” he said. Until the last few weeks, I have seen very little liquidity coming out of the private equity and venture capital space,” said Andrew Golden in an interview with the Financial Times. “We

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And so, we went from being just a private debt investor to being a private capital investor. And so, that was a big event for us because all of those private equity relationships, as a limited partner, are fantastic drivers of knowledge and relationships and deal flow to finance those deals with those private equity firms.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Venture capital is supposed to make a high multiple of return for the risk. Sure, that means exponentially opening up the flow of deals and going through a ton of deal flow. Because of that, my deal flow is better, and the investments I can make on behalf of those who funded me will be better.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2025

At its core, Salesforce is a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) -- a tool that allows sales leaders to track deal flow, pipeline trends, marketing campaigns, and more in a data-centric, efficient way. But over the last several years, Salesforce has diversified its platform through several high-profile acquisitions.

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Deal Flow Venture Capital Leveraging Prospects 130

Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Indias private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) sectors are positioning themselves for a surge in dealmaking activity as subdued stock market conditions push businesses away from IPOs and towards private funding, according to a report by Reuters.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Q3 performance benefited from our maniacal focus on these customer segments and deal flow remained strong during the quarter as we grew commitments from new and existing customers across all of our solutions.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

In September last year, after analysing performance and deal flow, Berg decided to switch to fund investing in Asia and Europe and to focus on buyouts in North America. Through this new group it will continue to invest in life sciences and venture capital and invest with external partners in funds and co-invest.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

So given these two areas that you focus on and the track record you guys have put up, I, I just wanted to mention again, you were named one of the top 10 venture firms of, of 2024 and a, a number of other accolades last year. Or are, are you guys a little broader thinking about a, a variety of different types of companies.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

LINDZON: It’s a handshake deal, like I’m a try, like Fred, like this was like a two person operation. RITHOLTZ: Read Sebastian Mallaby’s book on, on “The Power Law: Venture Capital” million dollar deals were literally done on a handshake. Hey, I’ll come by Monday for a check. Not so growthy.

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