Searching for patterns in these relationships, Robert Moore, co-founder and CEO of venture-backed data-analytics company RJMetrics, crunched Crunchbase, a public database of VC deals. In a blog post published today, he says that that well-known firms such as Accel Partners, First Round Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers tend to invest with a tight circle of friends.
Benchmark Capital shares 36 investments with DAG Ventures, which rarely invests in a company alone. At the other end of the spectrum, Edison Venture Fund invested alone in 53% of its companies.
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