Starwatcher podcast #5 - Sarah Guemouri from Atomico

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.

Find Sarah online:

Atomico

Linkedin

Twitter

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

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