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VentureNetwork
Recommend the best startups to investors based on their portfolios
Vickie Zhang
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How do investors locate the next hot startups?
•Network and talk to other entrepreneurs•Join an angel group•Join an equity crowdfunding platform•Syndicate investments => co-invest
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Investor: Geoff Ralston
Markets of interest: Education, Mobile, Information Technology, Kids
Helping school im-prove through data
analytics
Mobile educa-tional games
Deeplinks for mobile apps SaaS
A snapshot of his investment portfolio:
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Recommend new startups to investors based on portfolios
Investors
startups
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Recommend new startups to investors based on
portfolios
Investors
startups
A B
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Recommend new startups to investors based on
portfolios Investors
startups
A B
Recommend
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Algorithm: collaborative filterTop 500 investors
And 7000 companies (features) that they invested
Similar investor portfolios
PCA: Dimensionality reduction
Cosine similarity
Features: 7000 70
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Similar investor portfolios
Recommend startups
Algorithm: collaborative filter
Rank Startups
Base on how similar their investors are to the current user
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18% Mobile14% Social Media13% Healthcare12% SaaS12% E-commerce10% Advertising9% Big Data9% Education3% Financial Services
InsightsTop 9 market categories: Cover over 90% of startups
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InsightsHow diverse are the investment portfolios?
# of market categories an investment portfolio has
Count
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About me: Vickie ZhangUCB - UCSF Bioengineering Graduate Program
Human prostate
Mouse prostate
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Validation
On AngelList, investors can following startups
•80% investors are following at least 1 out of top 3 recommended startups.
•API does not capture the most updated investment information
–30% of investors are now investing in at least 1 out of top 3 recommended startups.