Today my guest is Sarah Guemouri - Principal at Atomico. She is responsible for data-driven initiatives like research, sourcing, investment opportunities and portfolio work. In our conversation we cover all of these aspects, deep dive in tech stack behind Atomico's "Boar" platform and discuss the ways how to shape data-driven culture. Plus some practical hacks. Also Sarah is one of the people who kickstarted Datahunt community for data people at VC firms.
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Notes
Background and road to Atomico and AppAnnie (Data.ai) experience
Data value chain at Atomico and how it was started
From consulting approach to automation
Internal startup at VC firm
Boar platform
Shaping data-driven culture
Real world problems, incentives and psychology
Practical culture hacks - leaderboard and communicating wins
Building own tools vs. buying existing ones
Tech stack development at Atomico
LLM use cases and learnings
Reconciliation layer on top of data
State of data driven VC industry
Building data-driven VC community
On VC industry disruption
Importance of human relationships
Hands on advice for small VC's who want to be data-driven
Starwatcher podcast #5 - Sarah Guemouri from Atomico