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VentureNetwork Recommend the best startups to investors based on their portfolios Vickie Zhang

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VentureNetworkRecommend the best startups to investors based on their portfolios

Vickie Zhang

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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

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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:

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Recommend new startups to investors based on portfolios

Investors

startups

A B

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Recommend new startups to investors based on

portfolios

Investors

startups

A B

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Recommend new startups to investors based on

portfolios Investors

startups

A B

Recommend

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Algorithm: collaborative filterTop 500 investors And 7000 companies (features) that they invested

Similar investor portfolios

PCA: Dimensionality reduction

Cosine similarity

Features: 7000 70

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Similar investor portfolios

Recommend startups

Algorithm: collaborative filter

Rank Startups

Base on how similar their investors are to the current user

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

InsightsTop 9 market categories: Cover over 90% of startups

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InsightsHow diverse are the investment portfolios?

# of market categories an investment portfolio has

Count

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About me: Vickie ZhangUCB - UCSF Bioengineering Graduate Program

Human prostate

Mouse prostate