Office hours with Stanford Professor Ilya Strebulaev. Data-driven VC rankings, Stanford frameworks, and field notes for founders raising capital and investors deploying it.
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Due Diligence: What Investors Actually Do With Those 120 Hours
An investor spends roughly 120 hours on the due diligence that eventually leads to an investment.
But recall the funnel. Most due diligence is performed on deals that never close. Add up the hours burned on those, and the real figure is we...
Fundraising Playbook: Avoiding Common Pitfalls
Part 1: Before Anyone Says Yes
What follows is drawn from my experience working with hundreds of my founder students, both current and former, and from years of researching and interviewing hundreds of investors and founders. In this artic...
The 2026 Venture Ranking: The Top 100 Emerging VC Firms
Pre-release
Earlier this year we released the inaugural 2026 Venture Ranking of the top 100 US-based VC firms, followed by the 2026 Biotech Venture Ranking. Both lists are dominated by established firms. Yet some of the most consequential...
The 2026 Venture Ranking: The Top 50 Biotech VC Firms
Public release
Earlier this year we released the inaugural 2026 Venture Ranking of the top 100 US-based VC firms, the first transparent, fully data-driven ranking of venture firms. In that list, life sciences appeared as a footnote: only f...
Office Hours: Reader Questions
This is the first open Q&A I have run on this Substack. I asked for your questions and received far more than I could answer in one post, so what follows is a selection, grouped by theme.
A few of them deserve a full article rather than a...
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