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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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WHAT IF AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS THE CURE?

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

With funding support and business mentoring from Ben Franklin Technology Partners, a former teacher and school counselor, Linsey Covert, started Teamology. Studies have shown that students who participate in this program feel connected to their school, the teachers, and their peers, and don’t end up socially isolated.

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Pareto thinks it shouldn’t be so hard to collect lead-generation data

TechCrunch

Startups need data to grow, and Pareto CEO Phoebe Yao wants to make that as easy as possible. She started the company in 2020 to provide virtual data analysts for businesses. Pareto’s team of data experts offer actionable insights for sales marketing and recruiting pipelines.

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‘How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live?’ — Eikon Therapeutics rakes in $518M

TechCrunch

Moerner developed techniques allowing us to “peer into the nanorealm” inside living cells — a feat that earned the team a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2014. A lot of people throw around the word proprietary technology, but what Eikon, has, in my view, is truly proprietary,” Goulburn said. “We Hell and William E.

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Neko, Daniel Ek’s next play, is another spin on preventative healthcare

TechCrunch

But dabbling as an investor evidently has not stopped him from wanting to get hands-on too — as one of two co-founders for Neko Health (the other being Hjalmar Nilsonne, whose prior startup focused on energy data analysis). He has also put some money where his mouth is — investing in Swedish telehealth platform, Kry , for example.

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Worldcoin ignored initial order to stop iris scans in Kenya, records show

TechCrunch

Months before Kenya finally banned iris scans by Sam Altman’s crypto startup Worldcoin, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) had ordered its parent company, Tools for Humanity, to stop collecting personal data.