Data-driven VC Landscape 2024

Rahul Goyette

Eheh glad to see Red River West is still among the top 20 😎

11 months ago

Hazel Altenwerth

As an investor always looking to stay on the cutting edge, I was excited to dig into the Data-driven VC Landscape 2024 report. This comprehensive resource provides valuable insights into how over 190 leading venture capital firms are leveraging data and AI to make smarter investment decisions. If you work in VC or are interested in learning how investors are using technology to gain an edge, I highly recommend checking out this report. The team at Data-Driven VC have done an excellent job distilling a complex topic into an accessible and valuable resource. I look forward to future editions as this fast-moving space continues to evolve.

1 year ago

Derick Koelpin

Great work on DDVC 24 Andre! Really excited about the VC Tool Finder and Notion templates as well! :)

1 year ago

Jedidiah Farrell

Amazing work Andre! This is so needed!

1 year ago

Hobart Glover

I came across Data-driven VC Landscape 2024 on Product Hunt and wanted to congratulate you on the launch!

1 year ago

Odell Bode

love seeing more data as a startup as well!

1 year ago

Jedidiah Farrell

Hi Product Hunt, I’m Andre, the author of Data-driven VC and Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital. Wanted to share a bit of history of why I thought something like the Data-driven VC Landscape should exist and how it came to be 🤓 As an engineer by training, I spent over 5 years automating production processes and predicting machine failures using anomaly detection before stumbling into VC. When I started my internship in the industry, I was excited to work with the smartest and most ambitious minds across our portfolio companies, LPs, and own team. However, I was shocked at the manual, inefficient, and biased way the job was done. The only transformation the VC industry had seen was from pen and paper to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It was incredible how such talented people wasted their time and resources with repetitive monkey work. This experience led me to pursue a PhD on the topic of “Machine Learning and the Value of Data in Venture Capital” to understand if and how this opaque industry could be digitized. After countless experiments and more than a hundred VC interviews, I built the first prototype of our data-driven sourcing and screening platform at Earlybird. While I was excited about the project, I didn’t have enough time as an investor to develop a proper solution that could be used by my other colleagues without coding skills. As a result, we hired our first full-time engineer and grew the team to 7 world-class developers as of today🚀 Throughout this journey, I connected with many like-minded people in similar positions at other firms. Surprisingly, we had different ideas for varying parts of our investment processes, yet the exact same pain points: * What are the most important data sources? * Which parts of the tech stack should we buy, and which components should we develop ourselves? * How can I convince the partners to allocate a budget? * How can we hire the right people for such a project? * How can we incentivize our investors to adopt new tools? The fact that so many like-minded people were sharing the same challenges eventually led me to start the Data-driven VC community. Being a big believer in open-source, my hypothesis was that if I give something useful to the world, it will come back 10x. Following the great feedback on my Data-driven VC newsletter and the inaugural version of this report in 2023, we doubled down this year and collected over 300+ surveys responses and tons of data to provide even deeper insights and tangible results to accelerate your DDVC journey: <a href="https://landscape2024.datadrivenvc.io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://landscape2024.datadriven...</a> * 190 data-driven VC firms * 100 thought leaders * 400+ tools for modern investors * The Lab: One place to find everything you need to run a modern investment firm. Content, Products &amp; Tools, Events, Community Channels, and more I’m absolutely thrilled to hear your feedback and continue growing our amazing community. Thank you for your support and stay driven! Andre

1 year ago

Elmer Schoen

Solid!

1 year ago

Jake Blanda

Super happy to see this come through. Making disruptive changes to a long-stagnant industry!!

1 year ago

Ruben McClure

Love what you guys are doing. So important to bring data center stage in VC. Look forward to see more!

1 year ago

Halle Wilkinson

Great info!!

1 year ago

Kenneth Corwin

Great to see people from both financial and engineering background building something powerful like this. Congrats on the launch! You got my support!

1 year ago

Chaim Schuppe

Must read for all VCs. It's fantastic to see how you're embracing data-driven insights in venture capital. I really loved the 2023 edition and can't wait to dive into the 2024 edition. Huge congrats on turning your newsletter into something much more tangible. Impressive work!

1 year ago

Constantin Leuschke

Great hunt @pascal_weinberger and congrats @andre_retterath on the launch of the 2024 report. It's really insightful to see who are the driving forces of focusing on data in the VC ecosystem. For me it's about amplifying conviction with data so the Data+Human aspect is a clear value. Also great to see you evolving it to a Summit and tools.

1 year ago

Chaim Schuppe

Congrats on the launch Andre! Had the pleasure to hear Andre's live launch of this report. This is a must-read for VC leaders looking to implementing data-driven processes and become more efficient with automation and AI.

1 year ago