Rockin’ Across Regions: Analyzing International Deal Flow from Industry Reports, Y Combinator, and…

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.

Elements like seamless translation and more efficient payment rails have lowered the level of investment required to push into new markets and have been a driving force behind increased, and earlier stage, cross-border investment.

A great deal has been written about what constitutes Venture Capital and what does not (including by this very author) in these seventy years. Though many different things to many different people, Justice Potter Stewart’s famous dictum in Jacobellis v. Ohio works for our purposes:I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I ... See more

According to our survey, investors are keen on capitalizing while startups look for additional capital to fuel growth while valuations driven by the market correction are still low.

In the past, there have been many attempts at disrupting venture capital:

• The proliferation of angel investors (AngelList, 2010)


• Enactment and regulation of equity crowdfunding (Jobs Act, 2012)


• Cryptonative crowdfunding via token sales (2013)

While many of these efforts were successful at generating a greater supply of passive capital for founders, the... See more