David Teten Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Coolwater Capital invests into fund managers (VCs) as a limited partner, into general partnerships, and into fund management companies. We run an accelerator for emerging fund managers (mostly VCs) and have graduated >256 funds which have collectively raised >$3b. Our GPs collectively have backed >8,000 companies. - Originate, diligence, invest in, and advise emerging VC funds. - Developed standard “constitution”, GP entity, and management company legal docs.- Recruited faculty and sponsors for accelerator.- Recruit limited partners.- Build out resources to support managers.- Source direct investment opportunities, including co-invests with top VCs. - Institutionalize firm processes. Upgrade internal analytics processes, tech stack, and data.- Strategy. Competitive analysis and benchmarking.

New York, Ny, Us

We are a community for family offices, private equity funds, lenders, and VCs using AI, analytics, data, and other “investment tech” to generate alpha, particularly in the private markets. I advise certain investors on these topics.- We collaboratively publish original research on best practices in AI, technologies, data, and processes for investment management.- We organize and co-sponsor events.- We publish breakdowns of the tech and analytics stack of investment management firms. Our members share (some of) the secrets of how they improve returns.

New York, Us

We are a selective, complimentary community for experienced tech founders researching their next move. We share no-cost resources to help founders learn about angel investing, become a scout, join/start a PE/VC fund, ideate startup ideas, buy a company with private equity backing, become an interim executive, join boards, consult, or just get a job. We particularly welcome women and underrepresented minorities.

New York, Ny, Us

Versatile VC backs early-stage "investment tech" fintech companies which help investors generate alpha and win. For example, we’re investors in alternative data, investment research, administrative tools, alternatives marketplaces, and marketing tech to help gather assets. Our typical check size is $200,000 to $1,000,000.We built and manage:FoundersNextMove.com: a community for tech founders who have exited, andPEVCtech.com: a community for family offices, private equity funds, lenders, and VCs using technology and analytics to generate alpha in the private markets.Among the investment tech companies I've invested in:Xperiti - A modern expert network, leveraging AI and ML for greater efficiency (acquired by Ipsos)Addepar - Make smarter investment decisions and drive greater outcomes for the portfolios in your carAsaak - Asset-financing and mobile financial services in emerging marketsClarityMoney - AI-powered platform to manage consumer spending; generates rich behavioral data (acquired by Goldman Sachs Marcus)Earnest Analytics - Earnest Analytics helps companies and investors understand the world through dataDrop Technologies - Cardify.ai from Drop unlocks the what and the why behind consumer spendingIndiegogo - Platform to launch & fund innovative productsRepublic - Access vetted investments in startups, real estate, video gamesStratifi - Client-profiling tools to make measuring risk simpleWonder - The future of knowledge delivery: on-demand research from analysts(Includes investments while a Partner at prior VC funds)

New York, Us

New York, Us

HOF Capital is a technology-focused venture capital firm that helps ambitious founders build massive, enduring businesses. Backed by over 70 influential families and organizations across 37 countries, HOF supports entrepreneurs by providing them with long-term-focused capital from idea to IPO, and helping them structure transformational partnerships with enterprises in its LP network. HOF has offices in New York, San Francisco, and London, with venture partners located globally. HOF today manages over $1.5b in assets. I joined shortly after HOF launched as the first outside Partner.INVESTING:Within our portfolio, I particularly worked as part of the team with our fintech companies: Asaak, Terraform Labs, Spherical Defense, Stratifi, Arcus, Flutterwave, and Drop Technologies (also a ff Venture Capital company).PORTFOLIO ACCELERATIONI lead portfolio acceleration. In 2018, I personally made over 70 introductions between our portfolio executives and top VCs, financial institutions, and enterprises. I also advised CEOs on fundraising, management, and other issues.TECHNOLOGYI worked with our team to drive technology adoption at HOF, including implementing our CRM, management systems, and cap table management system.

New York, Us

ffVC's Founder recruited me to join him as the second Partner at ffVC in 2011. At the time, we had only our CFO and an Associate in the firm. I was a full-time Partner until March 2017, then a Venture Partner through March 2018. During my tenure, we grew ffVC to >$150m in AUM and >25 employees. ff Rose Innovate NY (2013) is the best performing fund in the country for its vintage (Preqin). ffVC invested in 84 companies across US, Canada, Israel, and UK. INVESTING:- Served on boards of Ionic (sold to Twilio), Authorea (sold to Wiley), Earnest Analytics (Observer), Signup.com, and Whisk (sold to Deem).- Originated investment in Ionic Security and served as first board member outside of Atlanta. Ionic has since raised >$162m from Amazon, GV, Icon Ventures, Jafco Ventures, JP Morgan Chase, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Meritech Capital, TechOperators, and others, then exited to Twilio.PORTFOLIO ACCELERATION:- Initiated and lead growth acceleration platform: strategy consulting, preferred service providers recommendations, engineering support, PR/communications guidance, recruiting, mentor network, etc. Worked with almost all portfolio companies as advisor/resource/coach/mentor.- Reorganized, restructured & recruited new CEO for Clearpath Immigration (sold to L1BRE).FUNDRAISING:- Lead fundraising process for fund III, which included LPs such as Innovate NY (New York State) and Goldman Sachs. Part of team which made ffVC the first VC in the US to raise a fund via general solicitation (fund III). TECHNOLOGY:- Work with our engineering team to refine our internal, custom-made platform for tracking future and current investments and all associated data (spun off as Totemvc.com).

New York , New York , Us

- Recruited >130 angels as early members. Today, we are the largest angel group on the East Coast; our >350 members have invested $15m into >100 companies. We are the largest member of the global HBS Alumni Angels Association, with >1,000 members who have invested $70m into >300 companies.- Launched Fast Track program, which helps institutional VCs identify value-added coinvestors.- Co-founded Venture Capital Access Program, helping women and diverse entrepreneurs to raise capital from our group, partnered with National Association of Investment Companies. Organized joint pitch nights with the HBS/Harvard alumni associations for women, African-American, Latino, Arab, and LBGT communities.I served as Chairman until June 2014, then moved to Chairman Emeritus through Spring 2017.

Data mining and research analytics company, focused on helping institutional investors to identify proprietary investments in illiquid assets, using web-scraping and other non-traditional sources.- Advised funds such as Birch Hill Equity Partners, LLR Partners, and Duane Street Capital.- Lead author, first-ever study on private equity and venture capital funds' best practices in sourcing private company investments. Published in Journal of Private Equity, Harvard Business Review, and Institutional Investor. This is the 2nd all-time most read study published in the Journal of Private Equity.

Web-based platform for planning complex events.

Zug, Ch

Evalueserve is an offshore research and analytics firm which has grown from 0 to >2,500 employees since 2000. Over 1,100 clients, including 6 of the 10 largest investment banks and 10 of top 15 strategy consulting firms. - Co-run Circle of Experts subsidiary, which I founded and sold to Evalueserve in February 2007. - Lead Circle of Experts sales across >65 salespeople firmwide. Developed and taught sales training unit. Ranked #1 in company in referring leads to colleagues: >400 leads.- Launched and sold service to help private equity firms build close, proprietary networks of senior executives to serve as board representatives and interim executives. - Lead technology function: relaunched website, extranets, intranet, and blog.- Won "2008 Top Pick for Asia/Emerging Market Expert Network" from Integrity Research, one year after merger.

Research firm providing hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capitalists, investment banks, and law firms with investment research leveraging a network of frontline industry experts. Led negotiation to sell to Evalueserve.- Lead salesperson. Personally signed some of the top 10 investment banks, top 10 hedge funds, and top 20 private equity funds. - Designed proprietary speed-recruiting process to recruit experts for clients typically in 1-3 days.- Developed, taught proprietary elicitation training: how to motivate sources to share information with investors. Based on tools used by intelligence officers, psychiatrists, and journalists.

- Personally sold leading clients, including senior executives at American Real Estate Partners (NYSE: ACP), Carl Icahn Associates, IDT Entertainment, Net2Phone, OfficeTiger, Zacks, etc. - Signed outsourcing partnership with Accolo in 2004. Sold Teten Recruiting to Accolo (backed by Altos Ventures) in 2006, and joined Accolo's Advisory Board.

First investment bank for the internet domain name asset class.- Built 5 revenue streams: internet domain name sales, leasing, valuation/transaction advisory, domain name registrations, and internet advertising. Over 450 clients worldwide.- Recruited team of 54 professionals (at peak), natives of 19 countries and alumni of 18 leading banks.- Raised $2.25m from venture capitalists and angels. Signed $10m fundraising agreement with Credit Suisse in June 2000 at $25m pre-money valuation (unconsummated due to market). Shut down and returned 1% of capital to investors.

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Financial Analyst. Investment banking for technology/defense/aerospace industry. This 14-person team ranked #1 in defense/aerospace M&A in 1994-1996.

Paris, Fr

Associate Consultant. French strategy consulting firm. Spin-off of Boston Consulting Group. - For two major beverage firms, modeled financials, pricing, distribution, volume, and taxes.

Launched outsourced software engineering/IT services group. We won 35 clients which we served with 110 consultants. Co-developed and taught consulting workshops to our developers.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business

Ba, Economics + Psychology (Double Major)

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