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, put together an excellent presentation for the hackathon on how the Tiferes team can and should use AI throughout their processes.  This presentation covers:  Best practices in prompt engineering for a VC firm Creati ..read more

We are reviewing applicants now for the next Coolwater Capital cohort of emerging VCs, which kicks off in early May. Apply ASAP to build the next great VC fund. We accelerate VC funds to help them build the next great VC powerhouse. We have backed 226 VC funds, which have raised $2B+. We have an NPS score of 83. Via our portfolio GPs, we are  invested in and track 5,000+ companies.  Our “Build” program is an 8-week comprehensive proprietary institutional training course, with topics ranging from fund strategy formation & narrative, fund set up & management, to fundraising a ..read more

I am delivering a webinar today for The Entrepreneur Cooperative (ECO) and Founder Org, a membership-based community for founders and CEOs of companies generating over $1 million in revenue. In this presentation, I discuss: Assembling and Managing your Board Running the Board Meeting Running Startup Experiments Preparing the Board Agenda and Deck and I include many template Board Slides, which I copied from some of my past portfolio companies (anonymized of course). Thanks to our NYU student team and our intern Anika Dixit for her help preparing this! If this was helpful to you, please ..read more

How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry. However, as far as I know, the great majority of private capital raises for funds and companies are still not using general solicitation. My Partner Winter Mead, Founder & CEO of Coolwater Capital, the accelerator for emerging VC fund managers, said: “Few ..read more

The Digital Evolution Institute just posted my keynote video from their conference last month, on Who Will Disrupt Investment Management, and How? Slides are here. If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter ..read more

We’re partnering with Synaptic to build a detailed market map of the most popular and effective tools for investors and lenders in private markets across the entire investment lifecycle: thesis formation, origination, due diligence, fundraising, portfolio monitoring, capital deployment to fund management, marketing, accounting, etc. Would you be interested in participating in a 30-minute interview with Synaptic about the tools you are using in your firm?  All participants will receive exclusive access to the full research. The first 100 participants will be entered in a raffle for a chan ..read more

I’m proud to have a child attending the NYC High School of Math Science and Engineering (HSMSE). Please bid in our Spring Auction for prizes our community has donated, including tickets to see Stephen Colbert, a visit to the International Spy Museum, lunch with me (the least exciting prize), and many other better prizes! BID HERE! All auction proceeds go to support programs that benefit our HSMSE students, including the Wellness Center, sport teams and clubs and teacher grants. The auction will end on SUNDAY, March 17th at 9PM. If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newslette ..read more

If you’re managing an SPV, which fund administration vendors should you use? Landon Ainge gave us permission to publish his detailed evaluation of the SPV support landscape, including AngelList, Vauban, Allocations, Savvi Legal, Venture360, Finally, Sydecar, Canopy, Flow (I’m an investor via HOF Capital), Syndicately, Two12, SPV Hub, Formidium, Odin, PropelX, AM Advisors, Qualitas Fund Admin, Nth Round, SmartFunds, Loon Creek, Verivend, HC Global (my fund admin), Dealum, Specialsituations, and Sisu. He knows this space intimately, as Managing Director of Aingel Investments, one of the fastest ..read more

MyFoTech has posted the recording from the My Family Office Tech & Ops Conference November 2023, from my panel with: Raymond DiNunzio, TOS Advisors, an expert in technology for family offices Hugh Nguyen, formerly Chief Executive Officer of ClearServe℠, a leading technology platform for Family Offices and other wealth managers Michael Sikorsky, CEO of Copia Wealth Studios, Emeritus CEO of Robots & Pencils, manager of a single family office Christine Chang, formerly CEO, 6th Avenue Capital and a keynote by Jamie McLaughlin, a prominent wealth management and family office c ..read more

Here’s the video from my interview this week with Jennifer Katrulya and Rush Olney of the Family Office Association . I discuss Coolwater Capital, how family offices are investing in venture capital, and current market dynamics. If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter ..read more