We’re proud to share the next in PEVCtech’s periodic series on the tech and analytics stack of investment management firms. We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital, a structured finance company. Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to...
[Continue Reading]14 Tips on How to Sell to Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds
It’s hard enough to raise capital from VC, private equity fund, and family offices. How do you sell to them? I’m an investor in many companies which sell to these types of clients. I put together a cheat sheet with some of the sales best practices I’ve seen. I thought this would be helpful to...
[Continue Reading]TBD Angels Tech Stack
I asked Sriram Gollapalli, a founding member of TBD Angels and Long Angle, to share some details on TBD Angel’s tech stack and the ways in which it has helped TBD become one of the largest and most active angel networks in the US, since its inception 3 years ago. This is part of PEVCtech‘s...
[Continue Reading]New York Angels’ Tech Stack
I asked Liz Lindsey, Executive Director of New York Angels, and Jon Zaikowski, Assistant Director, to share some details on New York Angels’ tech stack and use of analytics. HBS Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) and New York Angels are the two biggest angel groups on the East Coast, to my knowledge. This...
[Continue Reading]How Versatile VC collaborates with other investors
In my meetings with family offices, VCs, and others, a frequent topic is how we collaborate with other investors. Here’s a summary of how we do that: – Other investors are frequently coinvestors/ followon investors in our portfolio. Join our AngelList Syndicate here. – We’ve published extensive research on how to build an investment management firm. We particularly have developed...
[Continue Reading]Versatile VC joins VCs for Repro
At Versatile Venture Capital, we are proud to be part of VCs For Repro – a coalition of VCs united to support access to abortion. We recognize that reproductive rights are crucial to championing innovation, the backbone of our economy. And, it’s clear that most of our community agrees. This is a humanitarian and economic...
[Continue Reading]Video: Womensphere Capital Forum
Womensphere has now posted the video from the first Womensphere Capital Forum, which I was honored to co-chair. We discuss advancing women’s leadership in finance and investment, and expanding capital access for women in business. Given I have 3 daughters plus a wife working in finance, this topic is close to my heart. Our speakers...
[Continue Reading]Interview: VC and Disruption of the Investment Management Industry
Angelo Robles, Founder of the Family Office Association, just posted a video interview with me. We cover Versatile VC’s strategy and many other topics relevant to family offices. The Family Office Association also just published our full white paper on “Who Is Disrupting Investment Management, And How?” For the slide deck and video presentation version...
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