The VC platform role has grown in popularity over the past five years. But many VCs viewed it as a "nice to have" when they needed a differentiation factor.
A platform role in VC plays a pivotal role in developing and growing portfolio companies. It also enables the VC firm to stand out from the crowd as the competition gets fierce with each passing day.
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A VC platform role is essential to the VC ecosystem. It provides a bridge between startups and the larger financial markets, supports the growth of companies, and helps them scale up.
In this post, we'll outline the post-fundraising challenges faced by startups, and explore the advantages of leveraging a VC platform hire to support your portfolio companies. As you'll soon learn, these benefits aren't just for the founders. They also encompass the needs of the VC firm and investors.
Software that is specialized and designed explicitly for the venture capital industry, can automate certain processes, capture, track and measure more accurate data and saves your platform team valuable time.
The first hire for your VC platform role will take on a managerial role and likely handle a variety of tasks from scouting vendors and suppliers that can service your portfolio companies to brokering new internal relationships.
Here's an insightful perspective when thinking about the role a VC platform can play within your ecosystem and the portfolio companies you support.
As an investor, you will be more successful if you help your underperforming investees brainstorm solutions and strategies for the problems they face instead of giving up on them.
We crunched the numbers, and these are the tools that portfolio companies are demanding the most, across all of our VC partnerships
We’ll take on the grunt work of onboarding and verifying vendors and managing benefits and deals. You help your portcos make smarter decisions.
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