BTW, Google Ventures has a better way to do this which relies on public data, Project Sandhill. By looking at data from Crunchbase, Angelist, etc you can get a

BTW, Google Ventures has a better way to do this which relies on public data, Project Sandhill. By looking at data from Crunchbase, Angelist, etc you can get a deeper graph of the interrelationships in Silicon Valley. If I was looking at who to invest in, or M&A, I'd be looking at data like that, as well as talking with investors and people they've worked with.