Behind closed doors: investment platforms vs. proprietary dealflow
15 March, 2015
A year ago I wrote a post titled “Proprietary dealflow isn’t dead and for good reason”. But with the rapid emergence of online investment platforms, how much is left of the rationale for keeping an investment opportunity behind closed doors? Too many investors: the winner’s curse According to conventional wisdom, a hyper competitive auction-style process may drive up the asking price so much that only the last “fool”…
Should you use dealroom.co for your next capital raise?
18 November, 2014
What if… you could hand-pick the ideal professional investors for your company and selectively share information with them in a private workspace that you manage? Dealroom allows you to…
Funding marketplaces or VC data analytics: why not both?
11 November, 2014
Finally, FinTech is arriving to the world of VC, private equity and corporate finance, spurred by at least three major trends. 1) Venture capital firms have started to embrace software…
Today we are witnessing banking activities being disrupted, vertical by vertical. Instead of banks sitting on technology and using it to their own benefit, FinTech is about giving the end-user…
A long overdue redesign of the corporate finance boutique
31 August, 2014
As a result of our platform we are able to work more efficiently and have a more scalable model. And not only do we charge lower fees. Also we don’t ask for onerous exclusivity terms nor tail fees. Below is an explanation of how this is possible: 1. Knowledge We have real-time insight on activity of investors (deal activity on our platform and outside of it). Our investor…
Our graph database contains over 1,000+ top VCs who together have created over 150,000 tracking connections with 13,500+ tech companies. Because of this proprietary data, it only takes us…
4 ways to sabotage your own fundraising process or exit
6 July, 2014
Fundraising or selling your company is neither an art nor a science. It is a fairly standardised process. But it is important to avoid some common mistakes and stick…
10 years in banking motivated us to rethink the corporate finance service model and the way it is best delivered. We like to call it: Service-as-a-Software (yes, the other…
The shadow banking system, still here… still growing
27 February, 2014
Here’s a little digression, but interesting nevertheless. It has been over 5 years since the financial crisis struck. Reduced banking regulation (since early 1980s) was certainly a big part…
Nassim Taleb’s anti-fragility concept in private equity situations
18 February, 2014
Private equity investors and lending banks are fond of subscription businesses because they provide more “stable and predictable” cash flow. I once worked on a buyout deal where the…