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Can Spanish startups live the American dream?
And why we believe they can
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Chloé Merlet
The reverse Lemon Paradox
Or how to Beat Sellers in Secondary Transactions with the Power of Data & AI
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Olivier Huez
Open-Source AI — Mapping, advantages & debate
Open-Source AI is rising and it’s more crucial than ever to understand what is at stake, so dive into this article with me!
How Open-Source alternatives are challenging great startups
The Open-Source market is currently booming.
The evolution of the Open Source market & how Fair Code is taking over
The world of Open Source software has undergone a radical transformation since its inception. Once considered the cheaper, lower-quality…
10 ways to leverage LLMs as a Data-Driven VC
Since my last articles on Data-Driven VC, OpenAI released chatGPT creating an unprecedented wave of interest in all AI-related topics.
Data-led investment: two fundamentally different approaches
The utilisation of data science for investment is becoming increasingly popular within the private equity investor community. As…
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Olivier Huez
Generative AI (2/2): what will the future look like?
In my previous Article about Generative AI, I tried to set up the basics by giving a definition of this new technology trend, explaining…
Generative AI (1/2): the new wave of AI is coming
While everybody was focused on crypto and web3 during the last two years, behind the scenes something that might have an impact of the same…
Signal-to-noise Ratio
How to apply telecom-based principle to algorithmic sourcing
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Olivier Huez
Data-Driven VC: what we have built at Red River West
In the last two articles we published, I talked about what is data-driven VC and what were the difficulties of building a data platform for…
The biggest challenges for data-driven VCs
Many investors in private equity are leveraing data, but most of the time, this means either buying an off-the shelf CRM software or an…
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