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📊 Did you know? It takes 37 days from receiving an application to investing in angel groups using Dealum! Join us on November 7th for 🚑 Angel Investing Health Check – A Data-Driven Exploration of the Angel Investing Ecosystem! 🌍 Discover more stats like this and gain a comprehensive look at the evolution and trends shaping angel investing in the CIS, Europe, and the USA. Our experts will discuss everything from investor growth metrics to capital dynamics. Don’t miss this deep dive into the latest data and insights! https://lnkd.in/dxGnkHtP #angelgroup #businessangel #startupinvestor

We dug into the data on the Dealum platform and found that among our angel group customers, the median time from receiving an application from a #startup to investing is 37 days. Is this fast or slow, and most importantly, is it enough to keep #angelinvesting competitive? A panel of experts weighs in this Thursday. Join our data-driven exploration evaluating the health of the angel investing ecosystems across the globe!

I was recently asked about what makes me take a second call with a founder.   In the world of pre-seed investments, it's often intuition that guides decisions rather than raw numbers. And for me, that intuition hinges on one critical factor: solid customer research.   When I engage in that initial conversation with a founder, I'm looking for more than just a great idea. I want to see evidence that they've delved deep into understanding their customers, their needs, and the unique space they occupy in the market. It's about that elusive 'founder-market fit'—a synergy between the founder and their customer—that truly grabs my attention.   What is the x-factor that makes you take the second call? Would love to know in the comments below. #eximius #vcfund #funding #funds

Great to see more coverage of our capital raise this week from The Australian. Reducing food waste was one of the drivers for Huw Birrell and I to start Fresho. There's a long way to go but the industry is moving in the right direction. Innovations like our AI-powered order automation and real time inventory are making the fresh food supply chain more efficient and reducing food waste.

We've teamed up with Learning VC💡 by Luis Llorens Gonzalez to create a trusted benchmark for expected compensation across various roles in the European VC industry. We would highly appreciate it if you could fill out this quick form: https://buff.ly/3MO4DLt. It takes less than 2-min and collects anonymized data. We’ll share the results with the community in the upcoming weeks. #venturecapital #startupfunding #Europe #EUVCInsights

In venture, predicting whether a company will raise funds within a given timeframe is extremely valuable. In today’s technical blog post, WiL Head of Data Max Eagle shares his learnings from testing a machine learning approach to predict near-term fundraising events for venture-backed companies. Read his findings and takeaways here: https://lnkd.in/gQ5i8DQf #machinelearning #venturecapital

big xyt , the independent financial markets data and analytics solutions provider, has raised €10 million in a funding round led by European growth investment firm Finch Capital. The investment marks the company’s first external funding after a decade of profitable, self-funded growth. https://lnkd.in/gxd3M3R8 #funding #marketdata #dataanalytics #AI #globalexpansion

Why Theia was founded: In the past few years, AI has stirred equal amounts of excitement and worry for many - we want to build technology that enhances life and we are worried about unknown risks and danger. I want to share my two cents: large scale AI is a reflection of the collective human consciousness. To make AI safe, we need to expand our own perspective with the help of AI. When we are wiser, our mirror image will be wiser too. Damaging actions often stem from a lack of higher perspective. Imagine you are the left hand and believe that you are separate from the right. When you see the right hand trying to take an apple from you, you would be angry and want to fight to get it back. However, if you KNOW you are part of a whole body, you’ll never want to damage the right hand and understand instead that the reason the right hand is taking your apple is to free you to do another task. The same goes for humans from a micro to a macro level. Cells that don’t understand they are part of the whole are cancer. Groups and individuals that believe resources are scarce and it’s a me-versus-you situation take damaging actions driven by fear. But if more people can take the perspective of the entire planet and civilization, see the beautiful blue jewel from above, we’ll realise we are part of a whole body, and why would we ever want to damage such a beauty! 🌏 And how can we see from a higher perspective? AI can help synthesise and distil information and allow us to see patterns and connections that are not previously possible. For example, large language models are trained by reading billions of books and articles, something no human can do. What would we be able to see if we had read everything ever written? Theia Insights was founded 2 years ago with the vision of using AI to help elevate human perspectives in the economics and finance domain - if more people can see clearly what exists in the economy and who does what by how much, we can more efficiently invest financial resources towards building a world of our dreams. And this core is in the name - ‘Theia’ is the goddess of sight. Seeing from an expanded perspective gives us a more hopeful and bright future.

We recently closed a small angel round and are raising our Pre-seed at Assisterr. I want to share 2 situations just to illustrate quite a repetitive scenario I had several times recently: UK-based VC: - "Oh, your valuation is too high. Please send us more materials, but it looks too high." - Did you invest in companies in our vertical recently? - "Not really, but we have plans..."; US investors: VC: "You are too humble with this range for valuation and your traction. It should be much higher". - Thank you. We are open to discussing the exact valuation with the Lead investor. - Then, 4 hours later, I got the message from the attached screenshot.

We're heading to New York to join the Eagle Alpha Unbound Conference 2024 on October 9th! Our COO, Hassan Salamony and Associate, Tejas Tater will be showcasing 3AI's Alpha Solution for systematic and quantitative equity strategies. Come and find out more about how a growing list of top tier investment managers are working with 3AI! #SmartAlphaInsights #DeepFactorAI #AltData #AlternativeData #AssetManagement #AIinFinance #InvestmentStrategies #DataInnovation #EagleAlphaUnbound #NYCDataWeek #FinanceConference #QuantitativeResearch