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🥨DDVC Investor Summit returns to Bits & Pretzels, Sept 28–30.

Speakers from A16Z, Kleiner Perkins, ICONIQ, Earlybird, EQT & more.

1,700+ investors. 300+ LPs.

Join in person or tune in virtually.

Virtual super-early-bird tickets: €99 (price rises to €149 soon)

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1 engineer for every 5 investors.

That ratio holds across 345 VC firms, regardless of fund size.

Investor and engineering headcount both scale roughly 7x across AUM tiers.

Smaller firms are getting leaner too: lower AUM firms run with 25% smaller investment teams than in 2025, while larger AUM firms run with 20% larger teams.

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Odin piece: https://t.co/mik2QrPk4d

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The SPV is dead, long live the SPV 💀

@credistick from @JoinOdin surveyed 56 GPs on how small funds actually use SPVs.

84% adoption: 39 of 56 GPs already use SPVs, 8 more planning to. 80% run funds under $100M; 51 of 56 invest at Pre-Seed/Seed.

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Full insights in this week DDVC newsletter
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52% of investment firms don't trust AI with sensitive data.

Our 2026 DDVC Landscape Report surveyed 137 firms on their top AI concerns:

→ Data breaches: 52%
→ Algorithmic bias: 38%

Deal information, LP data, and proprietary research are the assets firms are least willing to expose.

How is your firm protecting its data while still moving fast on AI adoption?

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Full insights from this weeks DDVC newsletter
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@IlyaStrebulaev (Stanford GSB) and @blake_ajackson mapped 100,000+ U.S. VCs. The concentration at Top 1% is🤯

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Track record predicts a VC's own lifetime profits. It does NOT predict a fund's net IRR or TVPI (the returns LPs actually receive). Two separate diligence questions.

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Full breakdown of all tools + the complete 2026 DDVC universe https://t.co/aLqVNQxAHi

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Inside the DDVC Tech Stack 🧵

The 2026 Landscape Report mapped the tools modern VCs are running on. A snapshot across 5 categories:

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Infrastructure

@foresight_data, @ExaAILabs, @awscloud, @supabase, @pinecone: the systems powering search, data, and hosting.