When a group of European VCs working on using data to improve investment processes created a Slack in June 2020 to swap notes, there were only about 10 members. There are now over 65 members in the group, and new people are joining every week, according to the founders, in just one sign of how much more seriously investors are taking what’s known as data-driven deal sourcing.
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