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 improve through data

analytics

Mobile educa-tional games

Deeplinks for mobile apps SaaS

A snapshot of his investment portfolio:

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Algorithm: collaborative filterTop 500 investors

And over 7000 companies (features) that they invested

Similar investor portfolios

PCA: Dimensionality reduction

Cosine similarity

Features: over 7000 70

Similar investor portfolios

Recommend startups

Algorithm: collaborative filter

Rank Startups

Base on how similar their investors are to the current user

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.

18% Mobile14% Social Media13% Healthcare12% SaaS12% E-commerce10% Advertising9% Big Data9% Education3% Financial Services

InsightsTop 9 market categories: Cover over 90% of startups

11

InsightsHow diverse are the investment portfolios?

# of market categories an investment portfolio has

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About me: Vickie ZhangUCB - UCSF Bioengineering Graduate Program

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