Why We Believe in Data Driven Venture Capital

Venture capital (VC) is traditionally a people-based, non-scalable business. Do you want to do more deals? Hire more people. Want to do deals in a new region? Open a new office. Want to provide better support to your founders? Hire an ops team. For an industry that invested billions of dollars in technology companies, the venture capital industry lacks proper technology adoption. It is one of the last industries to embark on the digital transformation journey. ...

January 7, 2025 Â· Jelmer de Jong

Hello World

2025 will be the year of the revival of the blog. …or at least it will be for mine. Not for a particular reason; I’ve been blogging on and off since 2003, back when Blogger was still a thing, Twitter did not exist, and personal blogs didn’t receive spam but 10+ comments on every post, and that with only 20 visits. I stopped and restarted on different platforms to play with the tech or because I felt I had something to share. And that something always felt cringe a year later, which resulted in clicking ‘destroy’ (and no guarantee that will not happen this time). ...

January 2, 2025 Â· Jelmer de Jong