Diversity in VC: Learnings from an LP Audit and how we can make this better together

This winter, Women in VC, the world’s largest community of female venture investors, released a report on “The Untapped Potential of Women-led Funds.” The research was stark, if not surprising....

Defining Today’s Opportunities Funds

Top Tier has observed a growing number of funds titled as “Opportunities” Funds in the ecosystem, which can mean many different things. We are continually having to define these fund names interna...

Quantitative Approaches to Venture: Why we are not there yet (Part 1)

In the era of big data and AI, not surprisingly we started to see more and more venture capital managers adopting new quantitative investment processes and frameworks....

Quantitative Approaches to Venture: Lessons from Chess (Part 2)

In venture capital, we are also seeing an increasing number of managers using scoring methodologies to make their final investment decision. Such scoring models basically consist of creating a weighte...