About us

We are a community for family offices, private equity funds, lenders, VCs, and other alternatives investors. We:

  • Collaboratively publish original research on best practices in AI, technologies, data, and processes for investment management.
  • Organize and co-sponsor events.
  • Publish breakdowns of the tech and app stack of alternatives investment management firms. Our members share (some of) the secrets of how they improve returns.
  • Share coinvestment opportunities.
  • and advise on various matters, particularly recruiting.

Among our institutional investor members are employees of such firms as Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, CPP Investment Board, Golub Capital, H.I.G. Capital, Neuberger Berman, Onex Corporation, Partners Group, and Riverside Company. Among our VC members are employees of firms such as Anthemis, B Capital Group, Balderton Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bloomberg Beta, ffVC, Foundry Group, Global Founders Capital, Greycroft, HOF Capital, Innovation Endeavors, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Open View Partners, Point72, Real Ventures, RRE, Stripes Group, Silicon Valley Bank, Susquehanna Growth Equity, Softbank Capital, Two Sigma Investments, and 7 Global Capital.

Our members are primarily in the US, particularly in NYC.

Some of our events are open to other ecosystem participants, including:

  • Engineers and product leads who are building tech solutions for private market investing; and
  • Founders/C-suite executives at investment tech companies

We have >8,000 double opt-in names on our mailing list and >12,000 social media followers for AltsTech and associated brands (Teten.com, Versatile VC, Founders’ Next Move). We have a history of publishing research in such publications as Entrepreneur.com, Harvard Business Review, PE Hub, Institutional Investor, Observer, Techcrunch, VentureBeat, and Wealthmanagement.com.


AltsTech’s Chair is David Teten. Use of the firm’s names above does not imply endorsement.