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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. Autonomous Logistics – Global autonomous delivery revenue could reach $900bn by 2030.

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Announcing our investment in DemandStar, a marketplace for government procurement  

Version One Ventures

We recently wrote that B2B marketplaces need to nail four things : aggregate product catalogs, automate procurement processes, increase trust/social proof, and integrate with key services in the ecosystem. DemandStar is on a great path toward executing against all four of these opportunities. .

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. More than 40% of B2B transactions in the US, which is roughly a $25 trillion market , are still made with paper checks compared to 5-7% for consumers.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. Over 1,000 senior professionals have since signed up for the mailer, which goes out on Fridays. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column. Related implications of what you want to do in-house vs. out source to an Agency.

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 1) Market fund. 6) Negotiate deal.