Making VC Deal Flow a Science
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5 min readMar 6, 2023
3 Ways to Apply Analytics to Create Better Deal Flow
Whenever you ask VCs about deal flow you typically get a few “standard” responses:
- We “see” thousands of deals a year
This really means that their analyst(s) see a lot of decks
- We have “proprietary deal flow”
VCs use this to justify 90% of their time going to traveling and networking
- Our deal flow is “why LPs invest” in our fund
Please don’t’ ask us about our due diligence…