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Can Data Driven Lending Displace VC Funding For Some Firms?

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Initially, CircleUp was founded as a marketplace to identity fast-growing consumer brands and match them with private investors, but the firm went on to raise a $125 million investment fund focused on using data to scan for certain difficult-to-find metrics for early stage private firms and strategically invest in early scale building rounds.

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein

Barry Ritholtz

He was the chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch where he worked for more than 20 years. He is a macro top-down guy with a strong quantitative background. Each investment bank had a different corporate culture, and it was clear that some of them I liked and some of them I didn’t. BERNSTEIN: Exactly.

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Transcript: Savita Subramanian

Barry Ritholtz

She is one of the few people who combine quantitative investing with behavioral finance. No, I think that that’s the part of it that I find the most interesting is the idea that, you know, a stock price doesn’t really have a, you know, the fair value of an an investment instrument is somewhat arbitrary. Right, right.

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