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.

Advantages of supplemental quant analysis

1. Easier to scale than traditional VC


2. Allows for fast, pre-emptive decision making — identify deals before they come to market, use robust dataset and proven grameworks 


3. Reduce Type I and Type II error: Bias and patterns of under- and out-performance are hard to detect. Quant systems can identify and then make

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To the boutique investors, this interface is addressed by scouring college campuses and builder communities. They are looking for outliers; the people with ideas so outlandish that it may not have even occured to them to seek investment yet. The pool of opportunity grows, and you may win more of it.