Takeaways from our first V1 Data Team Hangout

George Psiharis (the awesome VP of Business Operations at Clio) reached out with a great suggestion: connect the data teams across our portfolio companies with the goal of building a peer network to share best practices, and together push the bar on data science innovation. A few weeks ago, we had our first virtual hangout with […]

Zero to One in Data Science: The Tophatter Story

This is the last in a series of posts summarizing our speakers’ insights from the Data-driven Marketplace Meetup in May. You can check out previous posts summarizing talks from Bala Ganapathy on pulling levers to reach supply-demand equilibrium and from Jamie Davidson on Winning with Data.   Every company wants to be data-driven. But what exactly does […]

Winning with Data: More Highlights from the Data-driven Marketplace Meetup

This is the second in a series of posts summarizing our speakers’ insights from the Data-driven Marketplace Meetup on May 16. You can check out our post detailing Bala Ganapathy’s talk on pulling levers to reach supply-demand equilibrium here. Anyone who works with data knows that collecting it is one thing, but then finding meaning […]

Recapping the Data-Driven Marketplace Meetup

A few weeks ago, we hosted our second marketplace meetup in San Francisco. The night centered around data-driven marketplaces and we connected with and learned from many smart members of the marketplace community. We had a diverse group of people attending, from founders and product and growth leaders, to data scientists, data engineers, and investors. […]

Bringing Transparency to Startup Data: Our Data Repository Project

Two months ago, I first introduced my vision to create a startup data repository. Since then, I’ve chatted with many of you who share the desire to democratize access to information on startups and bring transparency to what’s been a traditionally private ecosystem. I’ve been blown away by the response and appreciate every like, share, tweet, […]