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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…

This post is a response to two recent tweets from Semil Shah and Marc Andreessen. Semil Shah wonders if the number of small angel funds and…

On dealroom.co you can find a list of European venture loan providers that actively provide loans to tech companies. In a recent post we already wrote about the…

Recently I read a post by Li Jiang from Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm GSV Capital describing the venture capital ‘stack’ discussing software to…

Recent talk on blogs and in VC circles have created a false impression that ‘the end is nigh’ for so called proprietary deal-flow. Venture capital could finally transform into…

A recent post showed a seed capital breakdown by source. It suggested that personal savings, friends & family and loans are still the dominant sources of funding…

So you might wonder, what are these companies doing on Dealroom.co? They are just there passively gathering a growing group of tech investors who track the company to receive…

Are you a startup using Dealroom for fundraising? Then this article has some basic but important points about how to use Dealroom to your advantage. Make sure your company…

The following chart should be familiar to most of the audience by now. It shows that venture capital performance on a whole has been abysmal. There are notable exceptions of…

Most venture capital firms typically employ a “deal funnel” that more or less looks as follows (see image below). Basically, VCs are trying to maximise…