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VentureNetwork
Recommend the best startups to investors based on their portfolios
Vickie Zhang
How do investors locate the next hot startups?
•Network and talk to other entrepreneurs•Join an angel group•Join an equity crowdfunding platform•Syndicate investments => co-invest
Investor: Geoff Ralston
Markets of interest: Education, Mobile, Information Technology, Kids
Helping school im-prove through data
analytics
Mobile educa-tional games
Deeplinks for mobile apps SaaS
A snapshot of his investment portfolio:
Recommend new startups to investors based on portfolios
Investors
startups
A B
Recommend new startups to investors based on
portfolios
Investors
startups
A B
Recommend new startups to investors based on
portfolios Investors
startups
A B
Recommend
Algorithm: collaborative filterTop 500 investors
And 7000 companies (features) that they invested
Similar investor portfolios
PCA: Dimensionality reduction
Cosine similarity
Features: 7000 70
Similar investor portfolios
Recommend startups
Algorithm: collaborative filter
Rank Startups
Base on how similar their investors are to the current user
9
InsightsTop 10 market categories:Cover over 90% of startups
10
InsightsHow diverse are the investment portfolios?
# of market categories an investment portfolio has
Count
11
About me: Vickie ZhangUCB - UCSF Bioengineering Graduate Program
Human prostate
Mouse prostate
Validation
On AngelList, investors can following startups
•80% investors are following at least 1 out of top 3 recommended startups.
•API does not capture the most updated investment information
–30% of investors are now investing in at least 1 out of top 3 recommended startups.
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