Sample

A sample of 4.8K+ investors at the top 500 US-based VC firms by AUM (firm data provided by PitchBook).

For this analysis, we only looked at US-based individuals but, it is worth noting that Live Data Technologies is primarily focused on monitoring employment status and job change events for white-collar employees in North America.

Methodology for analysis

Live Data Technologies maintains a continuously updated employment database of 88M+ white-collar workers and observes millions of job change events every year (both company changes and internal changes).

For this analysis, we looked at the arrivals and departures for individuals in charge of investment decisions at the top 500 US-based VC firms by AUM. In addition to arrivals and departures, we also looked at internal job changes where an individual changed roles but stayed at the same company.

We used an individual's title and other digital exhaust to determine if their primary job function is to make investment decisions.

Notes on the source data from Live Data Technologies

Live Data Technologies's standard process (our patented IP) is generally referred to as SERP analysis. We query the major search engines (Baidu, Yandex, Bing, Google, etc.) for information on people and their employment. A shorthand way of thinking of this is that we are prompt engineering the search engines.

All of our data is sourced through these sources and is publicly available. We assess ALL the info that comes back from each query to the search engines. We use a proprietary process to monitor the current company and title for 88M+ people on at least a twice-monthly basis, and as such pick up a lot of job changes monthly. This means we have a) the most recent employment data for the white-collar workforce and b) a continuous stream of job change events. This allows us to report on movement at the person, title, function, job level, company, and industry levels.