Halluminate.ai, an Orange Collective portfolio company, wants to license the internal operational data of financial institutions, consulting firms, or similar knowledge work institutions, e.g., old deal rooms, client projects, etc. They will pay you up to 6 or 7 digits. Halluminate works with Anthropic, OpenAI, and other leading AI labs to build RL (Reinforcement Learning)...
[Continue Reading]Boringtech VC and AI: Ascii Ventures
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 Brian Wong, GP of Ascii Ventures. David Teten: Please give us an overview of your firm. Ascii Ventures is a pre-seed venture firm focused on what we call “boringtech”...
[Continue Reading]From Outsourced CFO to VC: N6 Ventures Tech Stack
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 Ryan Gaines, Founder of N6 Ventures. David Teten: Please give us an overview of your firm. Ryan Gaines: N6 Ventures is a $5M seed-stage venture fund based in Palo...
[Continue Reading]The AI-Native Platform Behind Orange Collective, Investing in Y Combinator Companies
We’re happy to share the latest in AltsTech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha. I’m fortunate to interview my Partner Dave Yen, co-founder, Orange Collective. OrangeCollective.vc is a VC fund exclusively investing in AI companies from Y Combinator. YC is the world’s leading tech accelerator; the median...
[Continue Reading]AI Workflow VC Fund: Tech Stack Overview
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 Steve Chaparro, Founder & General Partner, Beyond Capital Ventures. I was most interested in learning some of the unique insights they’ve obtained. Steve summarized: “Technical excellence without workflow clarity...
[Continue Reading]The Most Common Mistakes that Fund Managers Make When Fundraising
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”...
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