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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

TechCrunch

Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. Investors are hungry for startups to throw their money at, but VC funding isn’t always the right option at all times or for every startup. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership.

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This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off

TechCrunch

XYZ says it has already backed 22 startups whose founders came out of the data analysis company, including most notably, Anduril , Lucky Palmer’s defense tech startup. You might not know yet of XYZ Venture Capital , a four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of Palantir are surely aware of it.

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Singapore’s KNN3 wants to enable social discovery for decentralized apps

TechCrunch

There’s no shortage of startups trying to make sense of the explosive growth of data generated from blockchain applications. Nansen has the support from a16z to provide on-chain data analysis for crypto investors. The Graph offers an API for developers to query blockchain data.

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Credit Suisse leads $20M Series A in data extraction startup Daloopa

TechCrunch

This was a big enough problem for one company to support all of the data analysis and forecasting without having to manually convert the data,” Li told TechCrunch. The idea for Daloopa came to Li five years ago, but he said the data extraction technology was not in place to get it off the ground.

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InfluxData lands $51M to grow its time series database offerings

TechCrunch

After raising several million in financing from VC firms including Mayfield Fund and Trinity Ventures, Errplane changed its name to InfluxData — and went on to raise tens of millions more in capital. ” Platforms like InfluxData have come into vogue in the last few years as the demand for real-time data analysis tools grows.

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Startup Trends from YCombinator's Demo Day

Tomasz Tunguz

This increase in activity seems to be driven by advances in data analysis for drug discovery and novel sensors. This trend opposes the broader VC market’s investment patterns. Financial management tools like expense management or receivables financing are growing steadily.