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Alternative VC Tech Stack: Chisos structured finance

David Teten VC

Q: What is CISA and how does it compare to other alternative VC models? Oftentimes our investments are in companies with little revenue or traction, making them more difficult to finance from a traditional VC/angel perspective. Q: What are the tools you’re using for your front office: sourcing , LP relations, investing analysis, etc.?

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Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups

TechCrunch

In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. To put the number in context, women-founded companies have accounted for around 24% of annual first-financing deals that we know had mixed-gender teams since 2017. The rest is noise.

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What’s your VC tech stack? Results from a survey of early-stage VC funds

David Teten VC

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?

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Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't

This is going to be BIG.

Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. That means you actually have a *better* shot, statistically, of getting VC investment at these firms, statistically, once you actually pitch. Why so many mixed teams? That, statistically, is true.

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Some Thoughts and Models Around Ownership Targets

This is going to be BIG.

You hear this from VC’s a lot: “We need to own X% of your company to make our returns.” They back it up with sensible math—owning 20% of a billion dollar outcome returns a $200mm VC fund, and, of course, you’re trying to at least return the fund. So, no one really questions the ownership model. Here’s a very plain vanilla model.

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Location data analytics startup Placer.ai raises $50M Series B

TechCrunch

But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence. Participants included Fifth Wall, Rahul Vohra and returning investors JBV Capital and Aleph VC.

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EnerVenue raises $100M to accelerate clean energy using nickel-hydrogen batteries

TechCrunch

In fact, it’s been used for decades in aerospace applications, to power everything from satellites to the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope. The company is planning on using the funds to scale its nickel-hydrogen battery production, including a Gigafactory in the U.S., And our battery does that really well.”.

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