Search Funds and AI: Aone Partners Tech Stack Profile

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,...

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Checklist legal and institutional action items for launching your emerging manager

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 coauthor Dolph Hellman, Chair, Orrick’s Private Investment Fund’s Group, who cowrote most of these resources with me. Writing the Constitution for Your New Private Equity or VC Fund:...

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The Legal Issues You Need to Nail Down for Your New Private Equity or VC Fund

(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...

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The Constitution for Your New Fund: Strategy, Culture, Decision-Making, Budget, and Data

(Thanks to my coauthor Dolph M. Hellman, Esq., Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; 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...

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How VCs Are Eating Our Own Dogfood: AI & Technology to Generate Alpha in Private Markets

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 Dogfood: AI & Technology to Generate Alpha in Private Markets.”     For more research on how investors in private companies can use AI and...

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Seeking Cofounders for Vertical AI startup: Identify and Move the Hidden Levers of Power, and Help Advocacy Groups Execute Their Mission

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...

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