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Digital health, seed, and Massachusetts show momentum in mobile in Q1. Fitbit tops rankings for wearable fitness apps.

Ranking Investors

Hey,

We're doing a lot more work with LPs to help them assess VCs using our Investor Mosaic algorithms.  Today, we've turned those algos onto ranking angel investors.

Overall, we're seeing increased interest from LPs in VC.  In particular, they're trying to understand emerging funds (aka micro-VCs) and who they should evaluate or invest in as they're trying to find "the next big fund".  The challenge they run into is that there are currently a glut of largely undifferentiated micro-VCs.  

We'll be presenting some aspects of our micro-VC data analysis in the coming weeks so if you got this email forwarded to you, sign up here to get it directly. 

Best,
Anand
@asanwal
 
CEO | Co-founder | Customer Service
anand.sanwal@cbinsights.com
@asanwal

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