The second part of the initial stage has been to pull data from the SDC Platinum platform with updated dates to make the pull as recent as possible.
===Pulling from SDC===
Finding what to enter into the SDC in order to run the reports that were already created is not always intuitive. As such I have included the process for each table here.
#USVCPortCoPresent-1980: VentureXpert -> Portfolio Companies ->
When pulling the VCFirm1980-Present, I encountered two problems. One, is that SDC is not able to sort through the funds that are US only with the built in filters. Two, there are multiple rpt files that specify different variables for the fund pull. I pulled from both to be safe, but in the [[VC Database Rebuild]] page there is a section on the fund pull where Ed specifies which rpt file he used to pull data from SDC. Regardless I have both saved in the ExtractedData folder.