Fundraising is just sales. As in all sales processes, you need to build a pipeline, take rejection, and keep plugging. Unfortunately, I see fund managers making the same errors in fundraising, repeatedly. Based on what NOT to do, here’s what I recommend you actually do: Build a pipeline of actually qualified leads, instead of “networking”...
[Continue Reading]🇯🇵Japanese private equity fund tech stack: Growth Partners Co
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 Noriatsu Furukawa, Founder & CEO of Growth Partners Co., Ltd. We met via Coolwater Capital, where I was formerly a Partner. David Teten: Please share an overview of your...
[Continue Reading]I recommend International College Counselors
For my daughter Peri‘s college research process, we needed some guidance. So we reached out to my old friend, Mandee Heller Adler, CEO of International College Counselors, and coauthor with me of To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. Peri wrote, For my college applications, I had a daunting task of telling...
[Continue Reading]New video: How Private Equity and VC Investors Accelerate Portfolio Company Success
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 Private Equity research study. I’ve embedded below my presentation and the video....
[Continue Reading]SumZero: world’s largest community of investment professionals
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 Divya Narendra, Founder and CEO, SumZero. David Teten: Please give us an overview of your firm. Divya: SumZero is the world’s largest community of investment professionals working with the...
[Continue Reading]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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