Investment management offers unusually high margins and unusually dissatisfied clients. That’s a recipe for VCs to turn analog dollars into digital dimes. We are co-leading a research project on innovation in the investment management industry, which we published as an Institutional Investor cover story and a Techcrunch series.
Among investors in the liquid public markets, we’ve seen a clear trend towards greater use of data and analytics. Private equity and venture capital investors are far behind. We aspire to build a best-in-class tech backbone, and are actively investing in companies serving the needs of investors in the private capital markets. More details on our thesis: Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments
Our team has invested in numerous investment technology companies while working at previous VC funds: Addepar, Clarity (sold to Goldman Sachs), Drop Technologies, Earnest Research, Indiegogo, Republic, Stratifi, and Wonder.
We’ve also invested in such fintech companies as: CardFlight, Distil Networks (acquired by Imperva), Ionic (acquired by Twilio), Estify, Flutterwave, Skip, Sure, Socure, Spherical Defense, and Terra.
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