In an increasingly competitive environment among Venture Capital (VC) firms, fund managers continuously search for ways to develop an edge over their peers. This realisation has led them to pursue more data-driven approaches and to start diving into the potential of data in investment processes.

VC is a finding and picking the winners game. Having explored the shortcomings in the respective stages, major areas for improvement in the sourcing stage are more comprehensive coverage of potential investment opportunities (this is what I call the “identification”) as well as more complete, unbiased, and accurate data on the respective companies ... See more