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]🇯🇵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]Tracking Portfolio Company Finances, Metrics, and Updates
How can you best track the progress of your portfolio companies, both to report to limited partners and also for your own allocation of time & resources? I summarize here the vectors I generically recommend you use for tracking portfolio company activity. Of course, every VC fund needs to customize their model based on their...
[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...
[Continue Reading]Family Office Masterclass: Who Will Disrupt Investment Management, and How?
Thanks to Family Office List for hosting me in a Masterclass today on “Who Will Disrupt Investment Management, and How?”. You can see the slides and video below. ...
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