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5 Must-Haves for Today’s Venture Capitalists

Investment management tool and feature essentials

Theron McCollough
5 min readJun 9, 2021

For years, many VCs have used a mix of spreadsheets and email to manage their investments. Despite the fact that technology represents 78% of venture capital investments, VCs themselves are stuck in the dark ages. The future of investing involves greater deal flow and requires better real-time tools to help private market investors make better deal flow decisions.

Here are 5️⃣ must-have tools and features for private equity investors:

1. Source High-Quality Deal Flow

VCs need a tool to help bring high-quality deals into their deal flow funnel. Deal flow is usually not quantified and based solely on your network & friends.

This is great if you have a strong existing network and have co-invested in the past or happen to be invited to “the poker game”. But what about emerging managers and investors who are new to the scene? When you get your hands on actual quantified deal flow, how do you handle it?

With fiifi, we quantify your deal flow based on your investment profile. Your Diligence tab includes your current and past deal flow in addition to companies you may be interested in. Want a warm intro to a new company? We connect with your

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Theron McCollough
Theron McCollough

Written by Theron McCollough

Managing Director at Citizens Private Bank | VC/Tech; past Managing Director with First Republic,@SVB_Financial. founder, investor, limited partner, and banker

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