Data Collective's early portfolio targeted $2B in 2016 revenue and bookings
Matt Ocko · 20VC: Data Collective's Matt Ocko on Why "All Fund Size Models Are Wrong" and The Lifecycle of Current Venture Funds Is Inefficient? · Aug 8, 2016 · at 20:04
Matt Ocko is co-managing partner at Data Collective (DCVC). He discusses portfolio company scale while critiquing traditional venture fund lifecycles.
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“In aggregate in just a couple of our early stage funds are companies have hard contracted gap bookings and or fully recognized gap revenue approaching what should be about two billion dollars in 2016.”
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