David Teten - Investor, Founder
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David Teten is a Managing Partner with HOF Capital. He has particular interest in fintech, technology-enabled services, analytics, artificial intelligence, sales/recruiting technology, SaaS, and international startups. David is Founder of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York, the largest angel group on the East Coast.
David Teten - Investor, Founder
2w ago
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!
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David Teten - Investor, Founder
1M ago
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
David Teten - Investor, Founder
1M ago
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.
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David Teten - Investor, Founder
1M ago
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
David Teten - Investor, Founder
1M ago
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.
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David Teten - Investor, Founder
1M ago
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
David Teten - Investor, Founder
2M ago
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
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David Teten - Investor, Founder
2M ago
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.
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David Teten - Investor, Founder
3M ago
I just had a video interview with Grace Gong of Smart Venture Podcast. We talked about the tech stack of emerging managers, CRM, data & analytics in VC, career planning for aspiring VCs, and much more.
Video here.
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David Teten - Investor, Founder
4M ago
We’re proud to share the latest in PEVCtech’s periodic series on the tech and analytics stack of investment management firms. We’re fortunate to interview Ayesha Kiani, COO, MNNC Group, a quantitative and systematic hedge fund investing in the digital asset space.
David Teten: Please give us an overview of your firm.
MNNC Group is a quantitative and systematic hedge fund investing in the digital asset space. The team members were formerly part of LedgerPrime and will be deploying similar investment strategies at MNNC Group.
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