System Atlas

Standard architecture: Venture capital firms

Workflows that drive an outcome from step to step. Mostly process steps.

Standard architectureThe parts at least half of the organizations in Venture capital firms have, as many as 295 of them run all together. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
295
Of their industry
100%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Process
    Money: getting paid and paying
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Strategy and goals
    in 100% of instances

Coloured arrows: a flow of that type seen between the two at instance organizations. Grey arrows: order only.

Structure
Element
Share of instances
Companies
Invariant 2
At least 90% have it
Process1
Money: getting paid and paying
100%
295
Decisions1
Strategy and goals
100%
295
Variant 0
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

Entropy
Where it runs rough

Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.

No findings recorded yet.

Seen across
Where it holds
Industries
Region
  • United States67%
  • Israel6%
  • United Kingdom5%
  • China4%
  • Canada3%
  • India3%
Instances
The 295 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.