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

David Teten VC

Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. LPs, coinvestors, and press use these tools, so I work for free for these data vendors to make sure that their data about our activities is correct. Her answer? ‘I

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Restrictions on acquisitions would stifle the US startup ecosystem, not rein in big tech

TechCrunch

Congressional committees have held scores of hearings, lawsuits have been filed and legislation has been introduced to regulate privacy and data collection. For VC-backed companies, there are effectively three outcomes: standalone company (often via an IPO), merger or acquisition, or bankruptcy.

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

David Teten VC

Haystack VC runs almost entirely on Notion. Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. Keren Moynihan, CEO, Boss Insights , said, “Last week at an industry function, we asked a high rolling VC, “how’s your lead gen?”

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Mobius Labs nabs $6M to help more sectors tap into computer vision

TechCrunch

The Series A investment is led by Ventech VC, along with Atlantic Labs, APEX Ventures, Space Capital, Lunar Ventures plus some additional angel investors. “The geospatial sector is something that we are focussing on currently as we have a strong belief that vast amounts of visual data is being produced by them.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Why your title matters, part-time CFOs, Sequoia’s new model

TechCrunch

Data collection isn’t the problem: It’s what companies are doing with it. Instead of raking in user data as a general practice, companies should aggregate information to optimize product development and create a superior customer experience, writes Maxim Kharchenko, director of fintech products at Rakuten Viber.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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Over the last few years, we’ve seen many entrepreneurs begin to tackle challenges in the construction world using robotics and AI, ranging from data-collection to completion of actual construction tasks like electrical wiring, drywall installation, concrete pouring, pad leveling and much more.