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]Building an AI Tech Stack focused on Y Combinator companies
One of the many reasons I’m so excited about the privilege to help build Orange Collective is that we are living in the future. Given that we are very tightly focused on investing in Y Combinator companies, typically pre-Demo Day, we are all-in on the unique YC ecosystem. We are rebuilding our tech stack from...
[Continue Reading]Launching Orange Collective: Exclusively Investing in Y Combinator Companies
I’m happy to share that I’ve joined the team building Orange Collective! Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies. Our team (Jason Freedman, Ryan Bednar, Dave Yen, Tara Perillo, David Teten) have founded 8 companies which participated in 5 graduating Y Combinator batches spanning from 2009 to 2017. The team has also collectively angel...
[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 AltsTech‘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]Competitive Intelligence 101
I advise my portfolio companies to be careful about what information they make searchable publicly. But on the other side, I definitely recommend seeing what information others have made public. For each competitor, I suggest you do the following: Look on Angel.co for their pitch deck. Look on Crunchbase.com and Pitchbook.com and see if they...
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