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]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...
[Continue Reading]Template Structure for the Anchor Investor in Your New Private Equity/ VC Fund
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...
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