Elite Fellowships, Scholarships, Conferences, and Training Programs for Young Leaders

When I was a junior at Yale, I had an epiphany.  There was a whole world of institutions who wanted to give me money or a free education, just because I was a young person. I thought: Sign me up for the free stuff! I laced up my sneakers and spent 3 hours jogging to...

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R136 Ventures Tech Stack: $400m AUM B2B enterprise software and fintech

We’re happy to share the latest in PEVCtech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha. We’re fortunate to interview Victor Orlovski, Founder and Managing Partner of R136 Ventures. David Teten: Please give us an overview of your firm.  R136 Ventures partners with creative entrepreneurs to help scale their...

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VC and Free Market Values

Liberty Ventures is a community “building the ecosystem of purpose-driven leaders committed to a free and prosperous future to build their businesses and so their impact.” I recently presented Coolwater Capital model to their members. Libery Ventures asked me how we align with their values.  I responded: Two of our key values are innovation and...

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Founders Edge: How we quantitatively assess founders’ odds of success

I’m excited to share the latest in PEVCtech’s periodic series on the tech and analytics stack of investment management firms. We’re fortunate to interview Greg Raiz, Founder of Founders Edge VC, and Jess Lynch, Partner.  Founders Edge (fka Raiz Capital) is a member of the most recent Coolwater Capital cohort of emerging venture capital managers....

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Video: Best Practices for Using AI in Family Offices

I was honored to present to Digital Evolution Institute at the Global Family Office Governance and Technology Summit at Fordham University, on how the most tech-savvy family offices are using AI, Tech and Analytics.  ...

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How Tiferes Ventures Uses AI to Make Better Investments

Tiferes Ventures is an AI-centric VC firm founded by Clark Valberg, co-founder and former CEO of InVision. Tiferes believes in eating their own dogfood, and recently organized an internal hackathon, in which all team members had to experiment with creating Custom GPTs for the respective processes they ran.  Michael Rubin, SVP Strategy and Chief Legal Officer,...

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