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Essays

The Question Every VC Is Sitting With Right Now

Mar 5, 2026

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8 min read

The Question Every VC Is Sitting With Right Now

What Do You Actually Do With Traditional SaaS Portfolio Companies in a World That's Permanently Repriced Them?

Andre Retterath

Insights

💡Why First-Time Funds Outperform, Lessons From Scaling to $350M, Startup Survival Rates, ARR Levels at IPO & More

Mar 3, 2026

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14 min read

💡Why First-Time Funds Outperform, Lessons From Scaling to $350M, Startup Survival Rates, ARR Levels at IPO & More

New Research from Stanford, Odin, Carta, SaaStr & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

How to Automate Investments With OpenClaw, Claude, n8n & More

Mar 1, 2026

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4 min read

How to Automate Investments With OpenClaw, Claude, n8n & More

Learnings from Accel, Atomico, Balderton, BlackRock, Earlybird, LocalGlobe, NFX, Point Nine, Tribe Capital & Others

Andre Retterath

Essays

Do You Still Need Analysts? The Investment Firm of 2030: Fewer People, Better Decisions

Feb 26, 2026

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13 min read

Do You Still Need Analysts? The Investment Firm of 2030: Fewer People, Better Decisions

How AI Reshapes the Venture Capital Org Chart From the Bottom Up

Andre Retterath

Insights

📊Impact of Geo-Focus on Fund Performance, State of Pre-Seed, Rise of Secondaries, Leveraging Personal Emails & More

Feb 24, 2026

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11 min read

📊Impact of Geo-Focus on Fund Performance, State of Pre-Seed, Rise of Secondaries, Leveraging Personal Emails & More

New Research from Theory Ventures, Carta, Growth Unhinged, Pave & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in February 2026

Feb 22, 2026

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15 min read

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in February 2026

SpaceX, xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

How to Create Defensibility in the Age of AI?

Feb 19, 2026

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13 min read

How to Create Defensibility in the Age of AI?

The Evolution From Data Silos to Full Context to Agentic Abstraction

Andre Retterath

Insights

🔥Wealth Trends 2026: Where Investment Flows, Can VC Scale?, Seed-to-Series A Graduation, AI Value Framework & More

Feb 17, 2026

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13 min read

🔥Wealth Trends 2026: Where Investment Flows, Can VC Scale?, Seed-to-Series A Graduation, AI Value Framework & More

New Research from MSCI Wealth, Bessemer, Carta, Odin & More

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

How Investors Use OpenClaw to Automate Daily Workflows

Feb 15, 2026

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18 min read

How Investors Use OpenClaw to Automate Daily Workflows

30 Min Setup Guide, Workflow Examples Like Inbound Deal Flow Processing, Portfolio Monitoring, LP Comms & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

📣New Speaker Announcement + Limited Discounts🏃‍♀️💨

Feb 12, 2026

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4 min read

📣New Speaker Announcement + Limited Discounts🏃‍♀️💨

Secure 33% Discount for the Virtual DDVC Summit 23-25th March 2026

Andre Retterath

DDVC Newsletter Library

Discover the full archive of Data Driven VC insights.

The Question Every VC Is Sitting With Right Now

💡Why First-Time Funds Outperform, Lessons From Scaling to $350M, Startup Survival Rates, ARR Levels at IPO & More

How to Automate Investments With OpenClaw, Claude, n8n & More

Do You Still Need Analysts? The Investment Firm of 2030: Fewer People, Better Decisions

📊Impact of Geo-Focus on Fund Performance, State of Pre-Seed, Rise of Secondaries, Leveraging Personal Emails & More

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in February 2026

How to Create Defensibility in the Age of AI?

🔥Wealth Trends 2026: Where Investment Flows, Can VC Scale?, Seed-to-Series A Graduation, AI Value Framework & More

How Investors Use OpenClaw to Automate Daily Workflows

📣New Speaker Announcement + Limited Discounts🏃‍♀️💨

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