VCDB: Venture Funds by Keyword, Geography, Assets and Blogs?
Matt Winn has executed on a mashup idea I've had for some time: a VC database, searchable by keyword, partner, location and assets under management. He even has the option of searching for VCs who blog. I'm not sure how he's accessing the data (scraping NVCA, BOSS, ?) and some of it needs some scrubbing, but the resulting mashup is another great step behind the curtain of raising venture capital.
If you search for Florida venture capital firms you'll find something like:
(you can see VCDB is missing a Managing Partner and a Venture Partner for our fund)
I really like what Matt's created and want to encourage/support the "entrepreneur friendly" ecosystem he's trying to create. Give Matt's VCDB a spin and help make it better...great job Matt!
(via @magical_trevor)
If you search for Florida venture capital firms you'll find something like:
(you can see VCDB is missing a Managing Partner and a Venture Partner for our fund)I really like what Matt's created and want to encourage/support the "entrepreneur friendly" ecosystem he's trying to create. Give Matt's VCDB a spin and help make it better...great job Matt!
(via @magical_trevor)
Labels: florida venture capital, matt winn, vc database, vcdb
Posted by VC Dan | 8/06/2008
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Comments (2)
Thanks for the mention, Dan. The data collection was manually pulled from venture firms' sites so not particularly scalable - I'm working on some ways to improve this process including wikipedia-like community sourcing.
We'll get your firm's details updated asap.
Best,
Matt
glad to hear it Matt. Yes, the crowdsourced approach is the only scalable way (barring an army of paid curators). The key is providing some reason for the crowd to help beyond altruism -- like recognition etc.
I'm sure someone from most funds would correct if they actually saw errors -- suggesting automated notification/quality-review?
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