Venture Capital (Data)

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Venture Capital (Data)
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Project Title Venture Capital (Data)
Owner Adrian Smart, Jake Silberman
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Project Objective

To create a master venture capital data set on which all other projects requiring venture capital data will be built.

Specifically, we will be building data to support the following:

  • Lists and counts by year as well as state, MSA, and city, zip code, etc.
  • Identify seed, early and later stage deals (first investment), dollars invested and rounds
  • Identify transactional VC dollars invested and rounds
  • Acquisitions and IPOs of VC backed firms
  • Identify when VC backed firms are "alive"
  • Geocode all portfolio companies
  • Geocode VC headquarters and branch offices
  • Compute distances between investors and their portfolio companies
  • Identify lead investors for portfolio companies
  • Identify top 100 VCs

Retrieving data

Old notes are Old Venture Capital Data Work

All pulls and processing scripts are in:

E:\McNair\Projects\VC Database

Each of the following has a .rpt, .ssh, and .txt file, and has the following constraints in its search:

  • Venture related deals
  • Round date in 1/1/1980 to 06/15/2017


The portfolio company (inc. round) based pulls also have:

  • Portfolio company nation = United States


The datasets retrieved from SDC platinum (on June 15-16th 2017) are:

  • Portfolio companies (USVC1980-present.ssh) - attributes to be extracted from roundlevel information
  • Portfolio company descriptions - just the portco name and the long description. Custom processed.
  • Round-on-one-line (USVCRound1980-present) - processed using RoundOnOneLine.pl
  • Funds (USVCFund1980-present)
  • Firms (VCFirms1980-present) - includes branch office so attributes must be extracted
  • IPOs
  • M&A

All files were processed with NormalizeFixedWidth.pl (after footers were removed) unless otherwise indicated. Some files required some minor post-processing to load into PostgreSQL. Issues included:

  • Firm level data didn't normalize correctly - had to adjust headers
  • Stray quotation in address line
  • Area code had a 1- in it
  • Some line counts were off by one or two
  • "Firm Capital under Mgmt" column header for VCFirms has a {0mil} which screws up the normalizer. Delete this part of the column title prior to running normalizer.


Additional datafiles (in E:\McNair\Projects\VC Database):

  • GeocodedVCData.txt 43,724 records, tab-delimited with companynames but with "none" for some geocoords.

Loading the data into SQL

The SQL script and load data are in:

Z:\VentureCapitalData\SDCVCData

The load script is:

LoadData.sql

Processing the base tables

The SQL scripts need to do the following:

  • Extract company infomation from roundbase then process it
    • Add variable for growth (1), transactional (2), or non-VC (3) (see below)
    • Create clean 5-digit ZIP field
  • Extract firm information from firmbase, then:
    • Add indicator variable for US
    • Create clean 5-digit ZIP field
  • Build out BranchOffice (BO) table
  • Build lookups for:
    • State Code
    • raisestatus

Lookup Tables

Stage of Investment

Growth VC (1)
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Seed
Early Stage
Later Stage
Tranactional VC (2)
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Acq. for Expansion
Acquisition
Bridge Loan
Expansion
Pending Acq
Recap or Turnaround
Exclude (non-VC) (3)
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LBO
MBO
Open Market Purchase
PIPE
Secondary Buyout