David Siegel, former CEO of Meetup and Investopedia, and Founder & Chairman, Israel Tech Mission, shares this great opportunity: We are launching our first free (aside from flight) investor tech mission to Israel, due to a generous sponsor who is solely focused on bringing more tech investors to Israel. The fully funded mission to Israel If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
Culture Shift Labs is convening a circle of diverse family offices, institutional investors, and AI founders for a Deal-Making Summit on September 11-12 in| David Teten
We’re happy to share the latest in AltsTech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha. We’re fortunate to interview Gelila Bekele, Founder of Aone Partners. David Teten: Please give us an overview of your firm. Aone Partners is a search fund partnership backed by 14 enterprise software CEOs, If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
Looking 4 entrepreneurial software engineer/product mgr/biz-dev killer 4 a network-based service.. pre-launch, BIG equity, big peeps involved–ANY TIPS?? If the answer is yes to any of these, keep reading. Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a tool to execute initiatives which require coordination with outside stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
Kudos to ffVC portfolio company Movable Ink and CEO Vivek Sharma! STG, a software-focused private equity firm, has announced they’re acquiring Movable Ink. My old firm, ffVC, invested when Movable Ink was a seed-stage company. Movable Ink has grown to 600 employees, and won more than 100 new enterprise customers in the last year across If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
I just spoke at the Venture Intelligence Day 2025 NYC on How Private Equity and VC Investors Accelerate Portfolio Company Success, based on my Journal of| David Teten
In response to continued demand and our commitment to keeping cohorts small and impactful, we’re doubling down on our mission to support the next generation of emerging venture fund managers. Even in today’s challenging market, standout new firms are continuing to break through—and we’re here to help power that progress. Coolwater Capital is the leading If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
I was fortunate to interview for AltsTech Ankur Agarwal, Cofounder and CTO of PE Front Office, and author of the new book, Alternative Investments Technology: Bridging the Gap. Personal and Professional Background What’s your background? How did you end up in your seat today? Well, it’s been a ride! I began my career 25 years If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
We finished publishing in OpenVC and here our series on structuring the team and legal infrastructure of a new private equity/VC fund. Thanks so much to my| David Teten
(Thanks to my coauthor Dolph M. Hellman, Esq., Chair, Orrick’s Private Investment Fund’s Group.) This is part of a series on structuring the team and legal infrastructure of a new private equity/VC fund: Writing the Constitution for Your New Private Equity or VC Fund: Strategy, Culture, Decision-Making, Budget, and Data Ownership The Legal Issues You If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
I’m happy to share that I’ve started working (part-time) with Orange Collective. Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day. The team (Jason Freedman, Ryan Bednar, Dave Yen, Omri Barzilay, and Tara Perillo) has founded 5 companies which participated in 5 graduating Y Combinator batches spanning from 2009 to 2017. The team If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
We’re happy to share the latest in AltsTech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha. We’re fortunate to| David Teten
(Thanks to my coauthor Dolph M. Hellman, Esq., Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; Chair, Orrick’s Private Investment Fund’s Group.) If you are launching your own investment management firm, we recommend designing a “constitution”: a set of documents covering the firm’s goals, legal obligations, and principles for handling disagreement. At Coolwater Capital, the “Y Combinator If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
Here are the slides and video of my keynote talk from Eagle Alpha's alternative data conference, Feb. 12, 2025, in NYC. I spoke on "How VCs Are Eating Our Own| David Teten
Many emerging fund managers find that large anchor investors request economics in their general partnership or management company. To help guide that negotiation, here’s a template of an opening letter to a potential anchor investor, laying out all your deal structuring options. You may find helpful a piece from Techcrunch on Should you give an If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
Thanks to Family Office List for hosting me in a Masterclass today on "Who Will Disrupt Investment Management, and How?". You can see the slides and video| David Teten
I just won agreement from one of our children’s high schools to participate in the American Exchange Project. This program sends high school seniors on a week-long trip to an American community very different from their own, and helps them welcome other students into their hometown for the same incredible experience. And it’s all 100% If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
One of the most powerful ways to attract investors to your fund or company is to organize a carefully curated dinner for qualified potential investors. Here’s my quick template cheatsheet for making that happen: Invite [Firm] Investor Dinner Please join us at a curated salon dinner exclusively for existing and potential investors in [Fund] Where? If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
I just joined Bluesky Social, a very rapidly-growing social network: https://bsky.app/profile/teten.com . Social media has been around for a long time now. I wish Bluesky the best of luck on learning from its predecessors, and surmounting the fundamental challenges of the industry, including but not limited to spam, performative conflict, and oversimplification. If this was If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.| David Teten
We’re happy to share the latest in PEVCtech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha. We’re fortunate to| David Teten
After some experimentation, I built and launched MiniVC, an AI avatar of myself. Check it out! It requires a subscription to ChatGPT Plus.| David Teten
