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2 | 645 Ventures | 645 Ventures, a NY-based early stage venture firm, has always been known to put much emphasis on data and analytics. The firm has developed 645 Voyager- a comprehensive software platform that powers the entirety of the firm’s operations — from automated deal sourcing, through deal evaluation and due diligence to syndication and portfolio support. | https://medium.com/u/dc76a1024a0f?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/8d3ab4dd7847?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/394def4b0d?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/b2c03b226e8c?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/33e60af55140?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/53bf5f1c24bf?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
3 | Backed.vc | Backed.vc is USD 30M pan-European seed fund that is trying to bring community-driven ethos to European venture world. Part of how the firm wants to address the needs of the markets is through the use of in-house developed software. | https://www.backed.vc/ | https://medium.com/u/f29bbc3fe4e3?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/577dc288245c?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/3946eec4c8c7?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/5dd5b163fc3b?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
4 | Bloomberg Beta | Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture firm focused on the future of work capitalized solely by Bloomberg LP, is taking a fascinating approach towards data science. | https://www.bloombergbeta.com/ | https://medium.com/u/9ed065b7bce9?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/86a8b1c606a8?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/8a0ad467acd2?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
5 | Blossom Capital | Blossom Capital, a relative newcomer to the scene, is a pan-European series A investor. Blossom views data as a necessity to deliver on its thesis, which relies on sourcing opportunities outside typical European startup hubs, such as London or Berlin. | https://medium.com/blossom-capital | https://medium.com/u/531eb94a282?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/3c07cc5157eb?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/b32ed67ea315?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
6 | Connetic Ventures | Connetic, hailing from Midwest USA, is an early stage investor focused on investments outside the Silicon Valley. The firm, currently on its sophomore USD 25M fund, has developed a proprietary tool called Wendal, which fully automates the pre-screening process. Wendal reportedly takes ~8 minutes to provide all the information needed to decide to move to human due diligence or pass on an investment. | https://medium.com/u/c091755e6447?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | |
7 | Correlation Ventures | Unlike traditional venture firms building relatively concentrated investment portfolios and putting much emphasis on leading rounds, San Diego’s Correlation Ventures strategy revolves around making many small investments in multiple companies in a co-investor capacity. | https://medium.com/u/5439f2ebb6fd?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/6ad4c7770333?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/707174e9d346?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
8 | Daphni | Daphni is a self-described VC-as-a-platform (fun fact: they sometimes also refer to themselves as “venture capital mutant”) investing in startups with European DNA and strong international ambition. | https://medium.com/daphni-chronicles | https://medium.com/u/2ab9ab950960?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
9 | Deep Knowledge Ventures | Deep Knowledge Ventures is an AI, precision medicine, longevity, blockchain, and investech -focused fund from Hong Kong. The firm uses software called VITAL (Validating Investment Tool for Advancing Life Sciences) to spot and asses investment opportunities and is one of the very few entities openly admitting to trying to eliminate humans from its investment decisions. | https://medium.com/u/e10438ce3753?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/710b3eadf0bf?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
10 | Dorm Room Fund | Dorm Room Fund is a student-operated fund established by First Round Capital. In January 2018 the firm launched VCWiz, a tool to help founders find investors and raise money from them, which is a combination of the best functionalities of CrunchBase, Foundersuite and NFX Signal. | https://medium.com/u/eb6ad9d6112d?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/e82c2dee452b?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
11 | Entrepreneur First | Entrepreneur First is the London-headquartered “talent investor,” which recruits exceptionally talented individuals at a pre-team and pre-idea stage, helps them find a co-founder and provides them with the support needed to found new ventures. | https://medium.com/u/7ce41be5acf1?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/143324cd0add?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/7bf578bf405c?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/a27416042634?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
12 | EQT Ventures | EQT Ventures is a Swedish multi-stage venture firm with EUR 566 under management. As a relative newcomer to the scene (launched in 2016), the firm has turned to software to help it break into tier1 VC echelon. At the heart of its efforts lies a proprietary software platform dubbed Motherbrain. | https://medium.com/u/48d123c25a82?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/8605e9e66419?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/74661f19f6b4?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/b613ac8d5966?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/3c4a23f41b93?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/6fc7c0f2845a?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/a6eeeca991e4?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/4e1be0ad6713?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
13 | FF Venture Capital | FF, an early stage venture firm from New York, are the original creators of Totem (http://totemvc.com/). Initially developed as an internal operating system of the firm, Totem was spun out as a separate business in 2017. | https://medium.com/u/7287c53b577e?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/99ccb0a98ce4?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/1309dd27b9ad?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/48ef945ea74c?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
14 | Fly Ventures | Berlin’s Fly Ventures is an early stage firm with EUR 41M under management focusing on AI-startups. Fly’s tech is currently focused on automating sourcing investments. Using a combination of structured and unstructured data source (including blogs, job boards, startup accelerators’ websites and internet databases like Crunchbase),and its proprietary algorithms, the firm is able to uncover startups that often have not even started looking for an investment, giving the firm a massive advantage in today’s cutthroat venture world. | https://medium.com/u/7cb8d7c5e8a2?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/2be7c947fc69?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/8f0e89f0e537?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/1afefdbd6a9d?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
15 | Follow[the]Seed | Follow The Seed, a venture capital firm active in Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, Sydney and Beijing, investing in the post-seed, pre-A round stage, takes a unique perspective on using data analytics to assess deals in consumer internet space. | https://medium.com/u/96c9d4548065?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/11387c95681?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/f8619b365ec?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | |
16 | Georgian Partners | Georgian Partners is a Canadian venture firm focused on later-stage SaaS-based business software companies within the realms of applied artificial intelligence and security. | https://medium.com/u/d3d81cdc0d9?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/d73ddedeeb18?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/60f74988c937?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/4a12a34f6fc4?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
17 | Hatcher+ | Hatcher is a globally-focused early-stage fund based in Singapore. The firm has developed proprietary data analytics and software platform, which it licenses to other venture firm, accelerators, family offices, and other investors in exchange for access to their dealflow. | https://medium.com/u/417d5faea8ed?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/d0e7ad8f2038?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | |
18 | Hone Capital | Hone Capital, the VC arm of Chinese PE firm CSC Group, became Silicon Valley’s most active seed investor of 2017 (excluding accelerators such YC, 500 and SOSV), despite being founded just two years earlier. | https://medium.com/u/db1c566e20dd?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/b4de8792c399?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/69c4fc49344b?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/69c4fc49344b?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | |
19 | Initialized Capital | Initialized Capital, a USD 225M fund run by Reddit’s Founder Alexis Ohanian and YC Partner Gary Tan, treats software as a pillar of building its competitive advantage. | https://medium.com/u/2af716d00d2b?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/16dda160d8d5?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/f455e8ea861d?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/39811284d707?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/c4de6f938a18?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
20 | InReach Ventures | Inreach Ventures is a London-based early stage-firm which pitches itself as the “AI-powered VC firm.” The firm has reportedly spent around USD 3,5M developing a proprietary dealflow platform referred internally as DIG, which tracks a plethora of points to discover and evaluate the most promising startups in Europe. | https://medium.com/entrepreneurship-at-work | https://medium.com/u/4566b25ce781?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/cc4298361e44?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/9e1308fd9cc2?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/380236f3ec21?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/380236f3ec21?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
21 | Kima Ventures | Kima is one of the world’s most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups a week across all sectors and geographies, despite having only 3 investment team members. | https://medium.com/kima-ventures | https://medium.com/u/ccc6ada1ac8e?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/5590021d6055?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/dcfcca79948c?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
22 | Nauta Capital | Nauta is a pan-European investor in b2b companies at late-seed and series A stages. | https://medium.com/nauta-capital | https://medium.com/u/b4404e5851c3?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/1f63cab744dd?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
23 | NFX | NFX, a San Francisco based seed & series A fund investing in companies with network-effects, which just recently announced its sophomore USD 275M fund has from day differentiated itself from the competition by the use of proprietary software and data analytics to power every step of venture’s value chain — from originating investments, through picking winners all the way to supporting portfolio companies in fundraising, recruitment, and knowledge transfer. | https://medium.com/u/c97362fd5497?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/ba6b8a8c91a8?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/5842ae928702?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/8a07dbc6ba0d?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
24 | Project A | Project A, Berlin’s self-dubbed “Operational VC” with EUR 260M employs over 100 experts who work for its portfolio companies. Since the early days, data has been the core area of focus for the firm. Apart from providing its portfolio companies with on-demand advisorship in this space, the firm often goes as far as operationally helping the companies set up the infrastructure needed to run truly data-driven businesses. | https://medium.com/u/fee2942b70c8?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/fc8d9fd011ca?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/b7949a7c8cb6?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/6ec00226dd0c?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/d7f689120d9f?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/42aca6cbffd1?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/1fcedb59beac?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
25 | Quake Capital | Quake Capital is a seed-stage investor from New York investing across a wide range of industries. | https://medium.com/u/4cf2616dc412?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/f0a2c67118e6?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
26 | Right Side Capital Management | San Francisco-based Right Side Capital Management has been one of the first venture firms to fully adopt an investment strategy of heavy portfolio diversification. Instead of trying to focus on the right industry vertical, pick winners and beat the odds, RSCM makes hundreds of small pre-seed investments of between $100,000 and $500,000 to offset the high assumed failure rate. | https://medium.com/u/470b9e00fcd3?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | |
27 | Scale Venture Partners | Scale Venture Partners are the masterminds behind Scale Studio, a benchmarking platform for cloud-based startups. Scale studio allows startups to compare their performance against a collection of comparable cloud companies to get a sense of how well they are performing relative to the market across metrics like growth efficiency, customer retention, and operations. For example, it allows entrepreneurs to see how well do they stack up against the Mendoza Line (acceptable growth rate for a SaaS company looking for venture funding) or far off are they from hitting the desired Magic Number (a common metric showing how efficiently Software-as-a-Service firm is growing its recurring revenue compared with sales and marketing spendings). For the firm, Scale Studio is a dealflow generation tool. | https://medium.com/u/11cfaf7c1a42?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/57117a237cfd?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/7e45498d954?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/10539cf7cf5a?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | |
28 | Social Capital | Social Capital, once the hottest venture firm in the Valley which recently made headlines by a wave of high-profile departures, has always been known to be pushing limits of what is possible to achieve with data. | https://medium.com/u/f2d7634417ef?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/dbfc705250be?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/c9a988542231?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
29 | Tribe Capital | One of the most distinctive tools Tribe uses is “the 8-ball” — an automated diligence tool Tribe uses both to assess potential new investments as well as to help the portfolio companies. Analyzing raw transactional data provided by the startups through the lens of growth accounting and cohort behavior, 8-ball allows to quantitatively (!) measure product-market fit and growth trajectory. | https://medium.com/tribe-capital | https://medium.com/u/9e52e7e52012?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/d36f2b50d1c3?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
30 | Ulu Ventures | Ulu Ventures is an early stage investor in enterprise cloud and smart data startups using Decision Analysis (wiki) to inform both their individual investment decisions and overall investment strategy. | https://medium.com/ulu-ventures | https://medium.com/u/4121cb71ac8?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/6c46c230e153?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
31 | Venture/Science | Venture Science, led by Matt Oguz, has been one of the very first quant-oriented firms in the world. Investing across stages, the firm deploys quantitative methods in both its selection and capital deployment processes. To define its investments, the firm has built a scoring system, which uses AI and decision theory to assess multiple attributes of every opportunity and try to determine risk levels associated with those. Some of those attributes are: Team Completeness, Stage of Product, Vision, Stage of Company, Proximity to Tech Centers, Autonomy, Global Applicability, Market Size, Traction & Growth, Mobility, Sales Funnels, Margins, Legal and Regulatory Risk, Intellectual Property. | https://medium.com/u/8732fb67a84e?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | |
32 | WR Hambrecht Ventures | WR Hambrecht Ventures is the VC arm of the IPO specialist WR Hambrecht and Company. The firm employs an investment strategy that combines predictive modeling and Clayton Christensen’s disruption theory. | http://www.wrhambrecht.com/ | |
33 | Y Combinator | Y Combinator, the world’s premier startup accelerator, has been using data and custom built software since its early days. Part of the YC software team’s efforts involves using AI to automate some of its processes. Using a data set of over 100,000 applications that YC has tracked over the years, the YC software team has built an AI it calls HAL to help screen applications. “HAL reads applications, and he votes on them, just like humans do,” says Friedman. “And he has saved a great deal of human hours.” | https://medium.com/u/cb8adc841a29?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/22acd7905c72?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/a352d7f296c5?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/a36004ecd447?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
34 | 500 Startups | 500Startups, one of the best-known accelerators/early stage funds in the world ,has dropped hints about its use of data in sourcing and evaluation of deals since 2012. Unfortunately, there’s not much information in the public domain to understand the inner workings of the firm in this aspect. | https://medium.com/u/c7573f5568b?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/ed0a2ab3c5be?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/2ae06dbf3eea?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/3701728fd29b?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
35 | Accelerated Ventures | Accelerated Digital Ventures is another twist on the traditional venture model. The firm, branding itself as a “patient capital engine” employs an evergreen fund structure, which allows them not to be constrained by typical 10year investment horizon. | https://www.venturemarket.org/ | https://medium.com/u/9b0c37380403?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
36 | Akkadian Ventures | Akkadian is an SF-based investment firm focused on acquiring secondary stakes in growth stage companies. | http://www.akkadian.vc/ | |
37 | Amaranthine / Websummit | Amaranthine is a USD 50M fund launched by the creators of Websummit — one of the largest and most well-known European tech conferences. | https://medium.com/u/aedf501cee81?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/4ac93275ac16?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | |
38 | AstoryaVC | AstoryaVC is a European early-stage fund investing in insurance technologies. The firm is known to have developed an in-house deal sourcing solution, which spotted more than 2500 potential investments within 12 months of operations. | https://medium.com/u/a5811c92ee0d?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/2bff4c0c3d70?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
39 | Clear Ventures | Clear Ventures is a Palo-Alto based venture focused on companies which, in its own words, are aligned with Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution (a combination of AI, IoT, Cloud, Big Data, 5G, AR/VR, robotics, and autonomous vehicles) | http://clear.ventures/ | |
40 | E.Ventures | E.ventures, formerly BV Capital, is a global venture firm with more than 30 years experience in the game. The firm’s efforts with data-driven investing, spearheaded by San Francisco-based partner Tom Gieselmann, head back to 2010. | https://medium.com/u/db1b9f6611c5?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/41bb09882aaa?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/64f26de152ff?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/71b6bfba8e0?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/3f7e22fda671?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
41 | First Round Capital | First Round, perhaps one of the best-known seed stage firms worldwide, has been one of the driving forces of the community/platform movement in the venture world. | https://medium.com/u/aef2a725508e?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/8482b9cc87c7?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/76987be97f6f?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/5fd4d662f2dd?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
42 | Flight.vc | Flight Ventures, founded by Gil Penchina, was one of the first funds built by leveraging Angelist syndicates. Currently operating no less than 25 syndicates, which already had five USD 1+ B exits, Flight is a poster boy of what can be achieved through Angelist. To support its growing volume of investments in a more systematic Flight has developed a (now defunct) tool called Angelmob which main purpose was to allow startups to easily request help from the ever-growing network of Flight syndicate backers. | http://flight.vc/ | https://medium.com/u/ca7d5a12c0ef?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
43 | Force Over Mass | Force Over Mass is a London-based early-stage investment firm, often described as a missing link between crowdfunding and venture capital. | https://medium.com/u/6ab424387279?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/e844dd089b4b?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/d6270bd5e793?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
44 | Hof Capital | Hof Capital, a New York originated venture firm, has built a proprietary tool to help them with both sourcing and pre-screening deals. Some of the characteristics used by the firm to filter out deals include whether the founders of a company previously worked at a successful tech company; whether a company has a certain number of PhDs on the team; and if team members studied at a tier 1 university. | https://medium.com/u/afc47244d41e?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/b6a19bcf50ee?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
45 | Kleiner Perkins | Kleiner Perkins, another legendary firm in this listing, has built the first iteration of its internal system called Dragnet back in 2010. The application was initially developed to ingest tweets and the mentions of the top 1,000 Klout influencers in startups and technology. Dragnet was basically charting which startups and companies were getting mentioned by influential people. The firm later added App Store data, Google Play Store data, Facebook platform information, AngelList startups, and much more, allowing the firm to proactively source deals — explained in 2013 now ex-partner Chi-Hua Chien. Since then, the company has kept an extremely low profile about its efforts in this space. | https://medium.com/u/f306055a38a8?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/7c8bbbb29fe3?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/9ee9b0ebeddf?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/7083cc23e2ca?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
46 | Menlo Ventures | Menlo Ventures is a multistage US venture firm focused on consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. The firm has developed its proprietary software called Menlo Signals, which is used both as a sourcing engine as well as a benchmarking tool. Its model tracks a range of metrics from daily and monthly users to chart position, page views, and appearances across the web. | https://medium.com/u/c07bf5ff1268?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/8b3b3b3bfda4?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
47 | Lightspeed Venture Partners | Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-billion dollar global multi-stage venture firm. The firm has recently become increasingly vocal about its use of data to drive investment decisions, and even poached Signalifire’s ex-Head of Data Jerry Ve to further boost its capabilities in this area. | https://medium.com/lightspeed-venture-partners | https://medium.com/u/7868b635dc0b?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
48 | Rocketship.vc | Rocketship.vc is an early stage venture capital firm from San Francisco, which, in its own words, invests in companies using models built through data science. At the core of its efforts is a proprietary algorithm named “Escape Velocity,” which identifies companies with “Sustainable Growth Engine” at their core. | https://medium.com/u/85ee55119b6a?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/1e96073ed13f?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/528f9f5c2625?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | |
49 | Origin Ventures | Since 2015, the firm has been developing its proprietary software which allows them to ingest a variety of data feeds, filter and apply themes against these data sets, and use various calculations to determine potential opportunities quality. The firm says it has decided to develop their proprietary software instead of using a data provider such as Mattermark to be able to develop a unique scoring system that isn’t limited to a single dataset. | https://medium.com/u/f61f30ca1a4d?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/ad588e5853c0?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
50 | Redstone | Redstone is a Berlin-based pan-European venture firm working with multiple corporate venture funds in a VC-as-a-service model, which aims to adopt a data-driven approach towards investment sourcing and analysis. | https://medium.com/u/de9681d90574?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/c6454a080ce?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
51 | TheFamily | The Family is a hybrid accelerator / fund / advisory shop/ fellowship/ company builder/ you-name-it on a mission to support European entrepreneurs. With community building as core of their activity, it shouldn’t come as a surprise, the firm is investing heavily in software infrastructure making connections between various stakeholders of its ecosystem easier. To support its goals, the firm is using a combination of in-house developed matchmaking tools and Slack. | https://medium.com/u/c0ef96e7e6c5?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | https://medium.com/u/b40f1cc0bda8?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/3f37cd63a560?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/baa6c4079d79?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/c842401c1ec4?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
52 | Unusual Ventures | Unusual, a USD 160M seed-stage enterprise-focused firm, a brainchild of AppDynamics’ Founder Jyoti Bansal and first investor John Vrionis has reportedly been working on a proprietary platform to help its entrepreneurs pool information and access firm resources called Get Ahead. | https://medium.com/unusual-ventures | https://medium.com/u/9b2a59095ff?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- https://medium.com/u/e348dfaaf495?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- |
53 | Venturerock | Venturerock is an Amsterdam-based investment fund and company builder taking a radical approach towards redefining venture capital model through the use of software, tokenization, and a set of distinctive investment strategies. | https://medium.com/u/68040b6a7895?source=post_page-----da92b81b85ef-------------------------------- | |
54 | Andressen Horowitz | A16Z, the firm that has forever changed the venture game, is not very vocal about its use of data or the software it builds to support its entrepreneurs. The firm has been known to hire multiple engineers and data scientists over the years, and mentioned “proprietary data sources” in some of the publicly available materials, but details on the subject are impossible to come by without insider knowledge. | http://www.a16z.com/ | |
55 | Atomico | Atomico, founded by the co-founder of Skype Niklas Zennström, is a venture firm behind Europe’s largest standalone fund — USD 765M. | http://www.atomico.com/ | |
56 | Balderton Capital | Balderton Capital, a leading series-A investor in Europe, has dropped hints about its data-centric approach since early 2014. | http://www.balderton.com/ | |
57 | Bessemer Venture Partners | Bessemer, a Bay Area venture firm with more than USD 4 Billion under management, has been one of the very first firms worldwide to implement the element of data in its sourcing operation. | http://www.bvp.com/ | |
58 | First Mark Capital | First Mark Capital, NYC investor in breakout successes such as Airbnb, Shopify and Pinterest leverages proprietary software to track the impact they have on the companies they backed, and to measure the performance of their investment portfolio. | http://www.firstmarkcap.com/ | |
59 | Fyrfly | Fyrfly is a Menlo Park, CA-based micro-VC investing in companies driving competitive advantage through data and analytics, which claims being data-driven is their number one principle. | http://www.fyrfly.vc/ | |
60 | General Catalyst | General Catalyst, one of best known US venture firms, which recently made headlines by announcing a strategic move into seed stage investing, has reportedly been working on data-assisted investing since the beginning of the decade. One of the people responsible for establishing this data-driven approach across the firm was Chris Farmer, who left the firm in 2013 to build out one of today’s most quantitative venture firms — Signalfire. | http://www.generalcatalyst.com/ | |
61 | Greycroft | Greycroft, an LA and NY based firm focused on investment in the Internet, and mobile markets are one of the most vocal critics of fully-automated venture strategies. The firm, however, publicly admits it sees the potential in using data to allow human investors to make better decisions and has been known to invest significant resources into its data team to help build out this capacity. | http://greycroft.com/ | |
62 | Greylock Partners | Greylock, one of the iconic SV firms, is one of the pioneers of the data-driven movement. The first publicly available notions of the firm’s usage of data towards origination and evaluation of investments head back to 2013, when Tom Frangione, Greylock’s ex-COO told Techcrunch that the firm was starting to build its internal data analysis tools. Since then, Greycroft has been known to hire data scientists and engineers, but never went into any detail about what they actually did. | http://www.greylock.com/ | |
63 | Gradient Ventures | Gradient Ventures is Google’s new AI-focused venture fund — investing in and connecting early-stage startups with Google’s resources, innovation, and technical leadership in artificial intelligence. Although no official confirmation is unavailable, it’s reasonable to suspect the firm uses follows the same data-driven regime as its larger brother GV. | https://gradient.com/ | |
64 | GV (formerly Google Ventures) | Since its founding in 2009, GV has been at the very forefront of the data-driven investment movement, which really shouldn’t come as a surprise given its mother organization analytical firepower: “We have access to the world’s largest datasets you can imagine, our cloud computing infrastructure is the biggest ever. It would be foolish just to go out and make gut investments” — said famously, Bill Maris, GV founder & CEO. | http://www.gv.com/ | |
65 | Hummingbird Ventures | Hummingbird Ventures is an early stage investor from Belgium. The firm has been experimenting with analyzing signal data (data collected via third-party sources. For example; web traffic, funding, app downloads, reviews, employee data, or revenue) to inform its investment sourcing efforts. | http://www.hummingbird.vc/ | |
66 | IA Ventures | IA Ventures is a fintech-focused early stage venture firm from New York. The firm has been widely rumored to amplify its sourcing and evaluation capabilities using data-science, and it has publicly acknowledged hiring data people in the past. Unfortunately, there’s hardly any information available on the specific approaches they follow. | http://www.iaventures.com/ | |
67 | Index Ventures | Index, a London-based powerhouse needing no introduction, has always been quite stealthy about the way it operates. The only notion of the firm’s data-driven deal sourcing practices comes from an ex-employee Imhram Ghory (founder of the aforementioned Blossom Capital) who claims he built such capability at Index back in 2012. As mentioned by Ghory “It was a case of identifying “unicorn indicators” — great team, best-in-class product, strength in hiring — and then building a data-science model that incorporated those.[Working with data] helps identify the stars who aren’t on the radar.” | http://www.indexventures.com/ | |
68 | Insight Partners | Insight Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in growth stage companies based in New York, USA. The only notion about the firm’s usage of data comes from a recent article for Televisor.co.uk, in which one of the firm’s partners — Deven Parekh, said that data informs a large part of how his firm invests. | http://www.insightpartners.com/ | |
69 | Lux Capital | Lux Capital is a venture firm based in NYC and Menlo Park investing in counter-conventional, early-stage science and tech ventures, with $1.4B AUM across five funds. | http://www.luxcapital.com/ | |
70 | Montane Ventures | Montante Ventures is a Bangalore-based fund that only recently began experimenting with implementing more data-driven approaches towards investing, mostly focusing on the origination front. | http://montaneventures.com/ | |
71 | Next View Ventures | Next View, a Boston-based seed stage firm focused on “Everyday Economy” has publicly acknowledged using data mining software and quantitative analysis to evaluate investments already back in 2013. From that point, onwards — absolute silence. | http://www.nextviewventures.com/ | |
72 | Omers Ventures | Omers Ventures is a venture capital arm of Canadian pension fund Omers. The firm has recently expanded to Europe by launching a dedicate USD 300m fund focused on European series A & B startups. | http://www.omersventures.com/ | |
73 | OpenView Venture Partners | Open View is a global late-stage investor focused on software. The firm first mentioned using data analytics to build competitive advantage back in 2012 but has been suspiciously quiet about the subject afterward. | http://www.openviewpartners.com/ | |
74 | Sequoia | Sequoia is a firm which needs little introduction. One of the very few public acknowledgments of its data-related efforts can be traced back to a NY Times article from 2013 titled Google Ventures Stresses Science of Deal, Not Art of the Deal”. | http://www.sequoiacap.com/ | |
75 | SOSV | SOSV is one of the most active seed investors in the world, funding more than 150 startups every year, through their vertical accelerator programs: HAX, IndieBio, RebelBio, Chinaccelerator, FOOD-X, and more. The firm has developed a plethora of internal tools aimed at matchmaking, knowledge sharing, and streamlining operations. | https://sosv.com/ | |
76 | Sunstone Partners | Sunstone is a growth-stage fund focused on cloud, enterprise, healthcare, marketing tech, and security, based in San Mateo, California. According to several different sources, the firm has been using machine learning and data analytics to inform its investment process. Unfortunately, no further details could be obtained at the time of writing this article. | http://www.sunstonepartners.com/ | |
77 | Switch Ventures | The San Francisco -based firm has hinted to using predictive and analytical approach towards both origination and evaluation of investments in the past. Unfortunately, there’s hardly any publicly available information on the details. | http://switch.vc/ | |
78 | Two Sigma Ventures | Two Sigma Ventures is a venture arm of an esteemed quant hedge fund Two Sigma, which invests across industries in data-driven businesses. The firm publicly acknowledged building automated systems to source and evaluate new investment opportunities, but unfortunately, there is no further info about the specific approaches it uses. | http://twosigmaventures.com/ | |
79 | Union Square Ventures | Union Square Ventures is one of the best performing funds in the world, with its 2004 vintage fund returning an astounding 13,91x cash-on-cash return. According to David Teten of Hof Capital, the firm has invested heavily into its technology stack. Unfortunately, there’s hardly any data publicly available to verify and expand on this claim. | http://www.usv.com/ |