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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Great, so now that everyone has met you, you need to do due diligence, right? Great, you get your due diligence back and you either make a decision right then and there or you wait to the following Monday partner meeting. Venture Capital & Technology' That leaves us somewhere in the middle of week two.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

Waithaka was previously Chief Investment Officer at Catalyst Fund, a venture capital fund investing in pre-seed start-ups. At Catalyst Fund, she was responsible for leading the investment process, which included sourcing opportunities, due diligence and closing deals.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 20, 2024

This collaborative approach allows for risk-sharing, joint due diligence e orts, and value creation opportunities. E ective due diligence and careful selection are essential to navigate these risks and ensure optimal investment outcomes.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Plus, if you''re not the type of founder who wants tough questions, then you''re probably not who I want to back anyway--so I find that going deep during the due diligence process is a good litmus test on the founder. Venture Capital & Technology' You want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Private equity and venture capital funds raised €59bn in the first half of 2024, a 15% year-on-year increase, but down by 28% compared to the amount raised in the second half of 2023. Its positive short- and medium-term outlook is reinforced by Invest Europe’s H1 data.

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MAY 11, 2015

That's one thing you have to realize about venture capital. Softball is also networking, though, because we have some entrepreneurs, another investor, and a left-handed female infielder who works at a venture bank and turns a double play as well as anyone in the league. E-mail is networking, deal work, due diligence.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

Venture financing into startups during the second quarter fell about 60% in Europe to €12.3 But as higher rates persist for longer, it will rock the foundations of venture capital as we have known it and there will be a brutal shakeout in the industry. Venture capital is cyclical and it's brutal when winter arrives.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

I'm not a publisher, so I have to rely on my network to do due diligence. Consider the following mental exercise. You pitch me on some product that. oh, I dunno. helps publishers monetize, or something. they take some data and you make some more money or something.what do you think?".

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APRIL 3, 2012

I've been in venture capital (with the exception of a year in product management and two years as an entrepreneur) since 2001, when I started doing late stage venture and fund investing at a big financial institution. And I'm sure, everytime I think that, people say the same thing about me and the extent of my track record.

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

Unlike a venture capital firm that states its criteria on its website and has forms, e-mail addresses, etc to encourage outreach, your site does a lot better job of saying "Go away!". The interesting thing is that being connected to wealth isn't necessarily a driver of good venture capital performance--why would it be?

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 30, 2024

Pure AI businesses are more of a venture capital or growth equity play at the moment – they’ve certainly seen some high-profile fundraisings over the last 12 months,” says Sean Murphy, Global Head of FinTech at Norton Rose Fulbright.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

One relationship that isn't so commonplace is having a venture capital investor--especially for the first time. Why are they doing due diligence all over again--every month?? Perhaps the due diligence process needs a human update. I mean, didn't they say yes to your pitch?

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MARCH 3, 2010

Jason Pressman, Shasta Ventures : "First board meetings always are a bit scary b/c you actually find out what is going on so my advice to both sides (investors and entrepreneurs) is to have no surprises due to a transparent, thoughtful and engaged due diligence process. we'll figure it out together."

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Forbion, a global life sciences venture capital firm focused on Europe, has raised over €2bn ($2.2bn) across its two newest funds, Forbion Growth Opportunities III and Forbion Ventures VII, bringing total assets under management to €5bn ($5.5bn).

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JUNE 30, 2010

If the feedback isn't good, I would have found that out anyway in the due diligence process and you might have looked bad for trying to pitch for money without having enough customer dialogue yet. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology.

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MAY 5, 2011

Having them associated with your business is cool, and might get you into a pitch meeting, but if their actual relationship to you is vaporware, it's just going to set others up for a disappointment in the due diligence process. By the way, do you know who (surprisingly) *doesn't* fit into this catagory? Ashton Kutcher.

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SuperAngel.Fund

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Investors are spending more time vetting performance proof points, and milestones during the due diligence process. What’s your impression of the current state of angel investing and venture capital? Overall, the AngelList report points to a few key conclusions: 1. There is a general flight to quality.

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APRIL 29, 2011

You may decide that where you are now compared to where you'll be in three months isn't a good time, and that's fine, but let's not pretend that you're not a tech entrepreneur in the office of a venture capital firm. That's kind like when people meet in *those* sections of Craigslist tell you they've never done this before.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential.

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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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Udu

APRIL 21, 2023

From deal origination to due diligence and analysis, a deal sourcing company can help firms narrow their search and maximize their resources. 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.

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Fortune Financial

MAY 4, 2023

Yet, it’s important to do due diligence and carefully research each investment opportunity before making any decisions. Venture Capital Another option is to invest in private 3D printing startups through venture capital firms.

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Axial

JANUARY 30, 2024

We assist in valuation, transaction structure, marketing the business, leveraging our network of institutional buyers and managing due diligence / legal process to close. Advisor to: Investment managers in the alternative-asset classes, including venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 21, 2024

You can endure any number of losers to find those stocks and if you're a venture capital-style investors as I am, you know that losing is part of winning. I run an early stage venture capital fund based in Bangalore, India, done so for the past 10 years. Thank you so much for writing in over this past week. "Hi,

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SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 19, 2024

For founders too, when possible, many also prefer to raise from their existing investor base so as to maintain consistency and optimize for speed in due diligence and closing. since 2019. This is a recipe I believe is crucial to achieving long term success and maximizing gains.

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Axial

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In venture capital, there’s the product demo and 10-slide pitch deck. Enjoy these featured podcast episodes from 2023. 9 Winning LOIs The Winning LOI is the twice-monthly Axial newsletter that anonymously reveals small business M&A valuation data and certain key deal terms associated with winning LOIs.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

EQT has always invested in nascent technologies in our early-stage strategy, particularly through our Venture Capital fund,” says Kumar. In November 2022, EQT held a final close on its EQT Ventures III fund at €1.1 Private Equity Wire put this question to EQT partner Arvindh Kumar. “EQT

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Since 2021, the regulator has pushed the sector to improve how it values assets that range from venture capital to office blocks. But, of course, the governance, risk and compliance specialists who manage operational due diligence do tend to be guided a little more by ethics and integrity, as compared to billable hours.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 16, 2024

billion) * assets under management, Schroders Capital offers a diversified range of investment strategies, including real estate, private equity, secondaries, venture capital, infrastructure, securitised products and asset-based finance, private debt, insurance-linked securities and BlueOrchard (Impact Specialists).

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Within about 90 days, it became apparent to me that we had not done sufficient reversed due diligence on our acquirer. This idea of reversed due diligence is like they're asking a bunch of questions trying to figure out who you are and where you fit with cultures like all those things. We managed to still sign and close.

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Axial

OCTOBER 26, 2023

.” Visit BMI’s Profile “Young America Capital leverages strong relationships with banks, venture-capital and private-equity funds, family offices, fund-of-funds, foundations, hedge funds, Fortune 500 M&A executives and large employers’ retirement systems to facilitate clients’ goals.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 25, 2024

Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), the venture capital investing arm of the $250-billion pension fund, is the lead investor in Instagrid’s Series C funding round and gains a seat on the company’s board. Another case of "too much money with too few brains chasing too few opportunities."

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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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Hedge Funds Mutual Funds Funds Due Diligence 65

The Big Picture

JULY 26, 2022

When I hear someone has an engineering degree, I tend to think of venture capital, not private equity. Well, you have to have a certain track record, be around for certain length of period, be able to check all of their due diligence boxes, and that takes time and money. WEAVER: Yeah. And I checked zero of those boxes.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

Hey, I want to do venture capital. And then our team works very closely with them in terms of the due diligence process and making sure that that index is constructed in a way that we’re comfortable and the right levels of controls are in place. I want to do this, I want to do that.”

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. RITHOLTZ: Right. So I’m proud of our role in it. Well, there’s 400 of fees.

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