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Simple Advice for Junior Folks in Venture Capital: Don’t Be a Generalist. Do One Thing Really Well for your GP and One Thing Really Well for Founders.

Hunter Walk

” If you’re joining a venture capital firm as a junior professional I’d recommend against being a generalist, or trying to get good at everything. Or some data analysis competency. Or running data analysis projects. Maybe it’s around sourcing and depth within a particular network.

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With $2.4M seed, Zing Data wants to put data analysis in the palm of your hand

TechCrunch

If data is at the heart of any modern business, it needs to be easier to access and manipulate it without expertise. Co-founder and CEO Zack Hendlin says they used Figma , a collaborative design program, as an inspiration when they created Zing Data. Zing Data is designed to let those users answer the basic questions themselves.

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Alumni Ventures launches Women’s Fund 1

American Entrepreneurship

Women-founded startups show measurable positive results compared to those of men Alumni Ventures (AV), the most active venture firm in the U.S. Serving as America’s largest venture firm for individual investors, AV’s dedicated fund will now make investments in companies founded by highly accomplished women entrepreneurs.

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BankTech Ventures’ Fintech Investing focuses on Community Banks

American Entrepreneurship

Strategic investment fund BankTech Ventures invests in companies that are developing innovative technologies that enhance the ability of community banks to serve their customers. When Bank Tech tapped Carey Ransom as its first Managing Director, the firm valued his extensive 25-year career in software and venture capital.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

When my pal Dave started his venture fund, 500 Startups, he was ridiculed. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. When you discuss them in person he is very reasoned, articulate and dispassionate. How can anybody do 500 startups?”. Sounds obvious.

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ODAIA raises $13.8M for its AI-powered commercial insights platform for pharma companies

TechCrunch

The platform combines data analysis, process mining and AI to offer predictive analytics to pharmaceutical and life sciences commercial teams. In terms of the future, Poulidis said the startup’s goal is to provide a one-stop shop for multivariate data analysis and predictive insights of life sciences data in a single platform.

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Fuel Me Raises $18 Million Series A Round

HPA

HPA is excited to announce our investment in Fuel Me ’s $18M Series A Round , which was co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners and includes co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Interplay Venture Capital, and FJ Labs.