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The First Data-Driven VC Hackathon

Last week, we were proud to sponsor the Data-Driven VC Hackathon, co-organized by Red River West and BivwAk! by BNP Paribas in the heart of Paris 🇫🇷.  Over two action-packed days, 80 participants – including developers, data scientists, and VC professionals – came together to tackle one ambitious goal: revolutionizing how venture capitalists make decisions with the power of data. This foundation in Paris will pave the way for the Data-Driven VC Hackathon Paris 2025 event.

Why This Hackathon Matters

The VC industry has long been due for innovation in how data is leveraged. While traditional methods have their place, the hackathon demonstrated that by combining cutting-edge tools, open-source collaboration, and diverse talent, we can push the boundaries of what’s possible. The event offered participants exclusive access to APIs from tier-one data providers. These included PredictLeads, People Data Labs, Similarweb, and Harmonic. This empowered them to bring their most creative ideas to life. Furthermore, the upcoming 2025 hackathon in Paris is expected to build on these innovations in anticipation of the Data-Driven VC Hackathon Paris.

The Winning Project: Pulse

The first-place project, Pulse, blew the jury away with its dynamic, data-driven approach to market segmentation. Built on enriched textual data from sources like PredictLeads, Pulse uses NLP-powered clustering to segment companies into evolving markets. The tool doesn’t just map existing trends but it also visualizes how markets evolve in real-time, offering an extreme level of granularity. This capability has the potential to change how VCs identify opportunities and allocate resources, a key focus for future Data-Driven VC events including those planned for Paris in 2025.

What Made This Event Unique

  • Diverse Participation: Teams were composed of coders, data scientists, and VCs from across Europe, creating an ecosystem of expertise and perspectives.
  • Real-World Impact: The projects weren’t just ideas but functional prototypes published under an open-source MIT license. This ensures the broader VC community can build on the innovations from the event. 🛜
  • VC-Specific Tools: From automated market trend analysis to productivity-enhancing tools for VC workflows, the projects tackled real challenges faced by investors every day. The aim is for Data-Driven VC Hackathon Paris 2025 to further this mission.

PredictLeads’ Role

As a sponsor, PredictLeads provided participants with access to our comprehensive company intelligence datasets, enabling them to work with real-world data. The winners used our insights to identify market shifts, analyze startup activities, and create actionable intelligence. Our mission has always been to make it easier for decision-makers to stay ahead of the curve. This event was a perfect opportunity to showcase how our data can empower innovation, especially looking towards 2025’s Data-Driven VC Hackathon in Paris.

Looking Ahead

The energy at BivwAk! was contagious, and it’s clear that this hackathon is just the beginning. As projects like Pulse continue to evolve, they could become the foundation for new startups. They may transform tools for VCs. The open-source nature of the event ensures that these innovations are accessible to all, fostering collaboration across the industry. This is crucial for future Data-Driven VC events in Paris, especially as we approach 2025.

To the organizers, mentors, and sponsors: thank you for making this event a resounding success. And to the participants: your creativity and dedication were inspiring. We can’t wait to see where this journey leads.

Stay tuned for updates and feel free to explore the winning projects on GitHub. Let’s keep innovating together!

Overcome Market Challenges by Leveraging Investor Networks 🤔

In today’s highly competitive market, leveraging investor networks for business growth can be a key strategy for companies offering innovative solutions that often face significant challenges in scaling their businesses. Despite having a great product or service, many companies struggle to:

  • Break into new markets: Identifying and engaging with potential customers in new sectors or geographies can be daunting.
  • Build trust quickly: Establishing credibility with prospects, especially in B2B markets, can take considerable time and effort.
  • Stand out among competitors: Differentiating from competitors in crowded markets is increasingly difficult.
  • Access the right networks: Many companies lack the connections necessary to open doors to high-value prospects or strategic partners.

These challenges can slow down growth and make it harder for companies to reach their full potential, even when they have strong products and a clear value proposition.

How Investors Can Step In: Leveraging Investment Networks

This is where your investors can play a pivotal role. Many venture capital firms, such as Sequoia Capital, Andreessen, and Insight Partners, have extensive networks that go beyond mere financial backing. These investors have invested in a diverse portfolio of companies, creating a network of businesses that can be leveraged to accelerate your growth. Here’s how:

Leveraging Investor Introductions

Your investors can facilitate introductions to other companies within their portfolio. These introductions can be invaluable, providing you with direct access to potential customers, partners, or even key industry influencers.

  • Example: If your company is backed by Sequoia Capital, they can introduce you to other companies in their portfolio that could benefit from your product. This not only opens the door to new business opportunities but also provides a trusted endorsement that can significantly shorten the sales cycle.

Proactive Outreach Using Shared Investment as a Connection Point

Rather than relying solely on investor introductions, you can take a proactive approach. While a shared investor relationship helps establish credibility, it’s important to highlight why your outreach makes sense for the recipient. A tailored message that emphasizes a logical fit between your offering and their current needs will go much further.

  • Example: If GV (formerly Google Ventures) has invested in both your company and Verve Therapeutics, you could reach out to Verve Therapeutics with a message like:

“Hi Mike,Saw we’re both fellow GV portfolio companies and that you’re hiring heavily for your Marketing department. We provide [x marketing software], and thought we should chat to see if we can support your efforts.”

The focus here isn’t just on the shared investor, but on how your product could address their specific needs – in this case, scaling their marketing team. This not only builds instant credibility but also offers a clear, relevant reason for them to engage in a conversation.

Additional Use Cases: Uncovering Broader Business Relationships

The value of your investor’s network extends beyond just portfolio companies. The dataset also uncovers other crucial business relationships such as partners, vendors, sponsors, and more. These connections can be leveraged in various ways:

  • Identifying Strategic Partners: Discover companies that share common partners with your business, opening up possibilities for joint ventures, collaborations, or technology integrations.
  • Vendor Optimization: Uncover potential vendors within your investor’s portfolio or those of their partners, enabling you to streamline your supply chain or access better resources.
  • Sponsorship Opportunities: If your investor has connections with companies that are looking for sponsorship opportunities, this data can help you identify potential sponsors who align with your brand.

Mentioned Companies

The investment companies and some of their notable recent investments include:

Conclusion: The Power of Strategic Network Utilization

By strategically utilizing the investment network data, your company can overcome the common challenges of breaking into new markets, building trust, and accessing the right networks. Whether through facilitated introductions by your investors or proactive outreach, the shared investment relationship serves as a powerful tool for building trust and opening doors. Additionally, by exploring connections such as partners, vendors, and sponsors, you can further optimize your business operations and discover new growth opportunities.

Would you be interested in utilizing this data in platforms to supercharge your sales outreach and lead generation strategies? You can find the full report and more details here.

Introducing PredictLeads’ New Technology Detection API Endpoint

We are excited to announce a new API endpoint from PredictLeads designed to help you discover which companies are utilizing specific technologies. Whether you’re tracking the adoption of CRM systems, cloud computing platforms, enterprise resource planning tools and more, this API offers a powerful way to gather and analyze technology usage data across the web.

How It Works

Our new endpoint allows you to ping a specific Technology ID and receive a detailed list of companies and websites utilizing that technology. This data can be invaluable for market research, sales prospecting, competitive analysis and more.

Example API Endpoint

You can use the following endpoint to start exploring technology detections:

Here are some Technology IDs you can use to test the API:

What You Get

When you query this endpoint, the API returns data about where the technology has been detected, including:

  • Company Information: Details about the company using the technology.
  • Subpage Detections: Specific subpages where the technology has been found.
  • Technology Details: Information about the technology, such as its name, description, and category.

Sample cURL Request

Here’s an example of how you can make a request using cURL:

Additional information can be found in our docs “here”. 

Interested in Trying It Out?

We’re offering 100 free API calls to anyone who wants to test this new endpoint. Sign up at PredictLeads and start exploring + Feel free to let us know if there are any specific technologies or IDs you’d like to check the coverage of.

Note on Development

Please note that we are continually improving this endpoint, and your feedback is essential. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, feel free to reach out to our support team.

Technology Data Snapshot

  • Technologies Tracked: ~15,000
  • Technology Adoptions Detected Since 2018: ~636 million
  • Websites Tracked: ~47 million
  • Technology Identifications Last Month: ~18 million
  • Technology Identifications Last Year: ~193 million

We look forward to seeing how you use this new feature to enhance your business intelligence and decision-making processes!

Boost Your Lead Generation and Email Campaigns with Connections Dataset

Hey everyone! Today, let’s dive into how personalized sales outreach with data can revolutionize your approach and make connections more meaningful.

In sales, finding and engaging the right prospects can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Sending non personalized emails is just a thing of the past and companies offering sales solutions are looking into data to add that personalized touch that increases those reply rates that we all like.

Job Openings Dataset as well as the News Events Dataset are incredibly useful and widely adopted for uncovering new leads and improving sales outreach. However, there is a unique dataset that is gaining significant attention. This dataset, which is not yet widely used due to its limited availability, holds great potential for transforming sales strategies. Here is why:

We all know that companies like to put logos of other companies they work with, on their website to gain credibility. Since those logos are often not backlinked, PredictLeads has built an image recognition system that connects these logos with company domain names. By checking the company’s Case studies pages, testimonials, “Our customers” sections and more allows PredictLeads systems to identify them as customers, partners, vendors, sponsors and more.


Here’s a quick rundown of how the Connections Dataset can revolutionize your sales efforts and how it’s used to target High-Value Prospects.

Identifying and Prioritizing Key Prospects

First up, let’s talk about finding those high-value prospects. With the Connections Dataset, you can pinpoint companies that already have significant relationships with your existing clients or partners. This means they’re more likely to convert because there’s already some trust and relevance built in.

How to Do It:

  1. Analyze Data: Dive into the Connections Dataset to find companies that share multiple connections with your current network.
  2. Prioritize Prospects: Rank these companies based on the number and quality of shared connections.
  3. Sales Outreach: Focus your efforts on these high-value prospects. Make sure to highlight the mutual connections and the benefits of joining an established network.

Example: A SaaS company finds that several of its clients are partners with a leading industry player. By targeting this player and emphasizing the mutual benefits, they can craft a top notch outreach that’s hard to ignore.

Next, let’s make your emails shine

Personalized outreach campaigns are the way to go because they address the specific needs of each recipient. By referencing the target company’s partnerships or integrations, your emails can be way more relevant and engaging.

How to Do It:

  1. Gather Insights: Use the Connections Dataset to get detailed insights into the target company’s partnerships and integrations.
  2. Personalize Emails: Craft email content that references these relationships, making it super relevant.
  3. Automate Personalization: Use AI tools to scale this personalization process, ensuring each email is tailored to the recipient’s context.

Example: An AI-powered email platform identifies a potential client’s recent partnership with an e-commerce platform like Shopify. They send a personalized email campaign highlighting success stories of similar clients who benefited from this integration. Boom -> relevance and appeal.

Warm Introductions through Mutual Connections

Finally, let’s talk about using mutual connections for warm introductions. These can significantly boost your chances of successful engagement. The Connections Dataset can help you leverage existing relationships to approach leads with more trust and credibility.

How to Do It:

  1. Map Networks: Use the ConnectionsDataset to map out mutual connections between your company and target leads.
  2. Request Introductions: Reach out to these mutual connections for warm introductions, explaining the mutual benefits.
  3. Follow-Up Strategy: Develop a follow-up strategy that leverages the credibility of the mutual connection.

Example: A lead generation company finds that one of its key clients is also a partner of a high-value prospect. They request an introduction from the key client, who provides a warm referral, significantly improving engagement chances and improves their data-driven sales outreach.

Utilizing AI for Enhanced Personalization & amplify the Impact with automation

AI can take your use of the ConnectionsDataset to the next level by automating the analysis and personalization processes. Here are some tips: 

  1. Automated Analysis: AI analyzes the dataset to identify patterns and insights, like high-value prospects and mutual connections.
  2. Scale Personalization: AI personalizes email content at scale by incorporating insights from the dataset into email templates.
  3. Predictive Analytics: AI uses historical data to predict which prospects are most likely to convert, helping prioritize efforts.
  4. Continuous Learning: AI systems learn from campaign outcomes, refining algorithms to improve future personalization and targeting.

Example Implementation:

An AI-powered email platform integrates with the Connections Dataset, analyzing the dataset to identify key relationships and generating personalized email content. It predicts which prospects will respond positively and continuously refines its personalization algorithms.

Conclusion

Since 2019, over 170 million business connections have been detected, with business connections data available for 38,5 million websites. Last month alone, there were approximately 12 million business connections, and around 57 million over the past year. The Connections Dataset is a goldmine for lead generation companies and those using AI for personalized emails. By providing detailed insights into company relationships, it helps you target high-value prospects, create relevant and engaging email campaigns, and leverage mutual connections for credible engagements. Combined with AI, it automates these processes and achieves personalization at scale, leading to higher engagement rates and better sales outcomes.

Feel free to let us know if you or if you’d like to learn more. We’re here to help:)!

Supercharge Your Sales Career: 1,000 New Opportunities Await!

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We’ve got some exciting news for all you sales pros out there. Our team at PredictLeads has put together a list of 1,000 sales job openings.

We’re sharing it with you in a Google Sheet right here: 
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This list isn’t just any list. It’s especially useful for people selling Lusha, Salesforce, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, HubSpot, SalesIntel.io, LeadGenius, and other sales tools.

Here’s why you might find it handy:

  • See which companies are hiring for sales roles and might be interested in what you’re selling.
  • Use the data to make your marketing efforts more specific and effective.
  • Spot hiring trends that could lead to new opportunities for your business.

What can you expect in the shared file:

  • Job openings Title
  • Website domain 
  • Company Ticker 
  • Companies Meta Description 
  • & Much more

And if you’re really into data, we’ve got something special for you. We have a massive database with over 157 million job listings.
You can dive into this data or use our API to get the insights you need directly.

We’re making a new list of job openings perfect for people at big companies like PwC, EY, KPMG, and Accenture. Want to find a great role? Let us know what you’re looking for.

Got questions or want more info? Email us at info@predictleads.com 

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