The team behind the report is Data-Driven VC (DDVC) a community of over 22.000 experts interested at the intersection of startups, venture capital, data & AI.
For the Top 100 Thought Leaders, they mapped a long list of nominees and selected the through a combination of number of community votes, content activity and position in their respective firm. "Looking at the vanguard of data-driven VC, we see a dance between off-the-shelf solutions and custom in-house tools. It's the differentiating IP and the smart combination of external and proprietary internal data, the heart of their tech stack, that gives these firms long-term-alpha." concludes Andre Retterath, author of the report.
Before getting the role of Senior Partner and CTO at RunwayFBU, has spent 20+ years connecting people, data & technology at companies including Opera and Katapult. With a background in Entrepreneurial executive leader with a background in IT, marketing, sales, recruitment, and client relationship management. (We are extremely proud of you!)
As for the VC firms category, DDVC received over 300 submissions to analyse a market benchmark and uncover what the top 190 data-driven VCs and 100 thought leaders are up to. The VCs were ranked using community nominations, number of engineers in the firm, and number of segments covered with internal tools across the value chain. According to DDVC, one of the major learnings are how AUM (Assets Under Management) per employee scales efficiently in funds, especially in engineering teams.
Read more about RunwayFBU AI and investiment in this article by DN (in Norwegian).
