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Thanks for putting this together! The easier and more accurate way to decide if an investor is active or not is to see when their last fund was raised. This is
by rafaelc 14y ago
Thanks for putting this together! The easier and more accurate way to decide if an investor is active or not is to see when their last fund was raised. This is publicly available in multiple places, such as CrunchBase.
The reason this makes sense is that a typical top VC fund deploys the vast majority of their capital in the first 3 or so years of that fund. So for example, as a VC at a firm that raised their last fund in that time frame, my mandate is to find and assist the best possible startups and in the process also fund them. So this means that a fund with that kind of characteristic isn't going to sit on the money - which means that any firm that raised a new fund in the last 2-3 years will most certainly be actively investing.