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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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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

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I knew him well before he became a VC. I knew his as he considered becoming a VC and we talked a lot about how it was going for me in my early years. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. The Dave I know, I’ve known for 6 years. Sounds obvious.

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Optimize for authentic relationships, not bluster

This is going to be BIG.

Hilary has had both a major impact on my personally--by helping to push the envelope on the kind of data analysis work we were doing at Path 101. When we hired her, we leveled up in terms of our technology and Big Data chops. That's when I reemerged on Josh Kopelman's radar and he decided to offer me a job at First Round.

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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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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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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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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. @yourprotagonist.

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