Author: David Teten

​Join us for Global VC Demo Day in New York, where 7 selected VCs, including OrangeCollective.vc, will present to a room of institutional and HNWI prospective Limited Partner investors.

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​​If you are an active VC currently raising—or planning to raise—LP capital in the next 18 months, or an active LP allocating to the venture capital asset class, get in touch to join us at one of our full-day Global VC Demo Day events. These will be held throughout the year in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, New York, Miami, London, Dubai, and Singapore. Details: https://www.7bc.vc/events. For inquiries, contact info@7bc.vc.

​LPs do not pay any fee to attend and VCs are selected only from merit to pitch or attend Global VC Demo Day.

​Special thanks to our host, Brown Rudnick, and our sponsor, Zive AI. 

Culture Shift Labs is convening a curated circle of family offices, other institutional investors, and AI founders for a Deal-Making Summit on September 11-12 in NYC. Admission is complimentary for qualified investors managing over $100m of family or institutional assets. If you’re interested in speaking or attending, contact us. I’m honored to chair this event.

You can see the agenda and request an invitation here.

Among our confirmed speakers, who collectively manage well north of $230b:

Foundations/Institutions

• Dail St. Claire, CEO, Episcopal Church Foundation ($15b AUM)
• Sophia Tsai, Managing Director, Trinity Church ($6b endowment)
• Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, Deputy CIO of Responsible Investing, Bureau of Asset Management, Office of NYC Comptroller (>$194b+ AUM)
• Danielle S. Goonan, VP, US Economic Opportunity, at Rockefeller Foundation

Family offices

• Russell Deakin, CIO, Aceana Group (single family office)
• Jessie Ai, Head of Investments, Forman Family Office
• Omar Woodard, Executive Director, HRS Management (single family office)
• Alain Gamas, The Gamas Family
• Steve McClurg, CEO, Canary Capital

Venture capitalists/other investors

• David Teten, Partner, Orange Collective; Co-founder and Chairman, Action Tank
• Camila Clarke, CEO, Clarke Capital
• Alan Mattamana, Partner, Fairview Capital ($1.6b AUM)
• Luis Valdich, Founder/Managing Partner, VIM Investors
• Jonathan Machado, Managing Director, Samsung NEXT
• Raamel Mitchell, Director, AI & App Innovation, Microsoft
• Urs Cete, Founding Partner, 1745 Ventures
• Rohini Chakravarthy, Managing Partner, NewBuild VC
• Rami Reyes, Co-Founder & Managing Director, NextEquity Partners
• Jalak Jobanputra, Founder & Managing Partner, Future\Perfect Ventures

Thought leaders

• Ben Bilbrough, CEO and Cofounder, Action Tank
• Yael Eisenstat, Policy Director, Cybersecurity for Democracy
• Marcos Soler, Executive Director, Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law
• Gerardo Berthin, President, Freedom House

You can see the agenda and request an invitation here.

About Culture Shift Labs and the Deal-Making Summits

The Deal-Making Summit is an annual invite-only series that takes place in Silicon Valley, New York, Boston and London. These are the only Summits of their kind that curates 100-300 diverse tech executives, entrepreneurs, investors, innovators and social impact leaders in order to enable deals, collaborations and wealth creation (our mission). Over the last 11 years, we’ve enabled over $2B into the hands of entrepreneurs, executives, fund managers and non-profit leaders that attend. The Deal-Making Summit is a signature event of Culture Shift Labs, a social impact and social innovation management consultancy established in 2006.

David Siegel, former CEO of Meetup and Investopedia, and Founder & Chairman, Israel Tech Mission, shares this fantastic opportunity:

We are launching our first free (aside from flight) investor tech mission to Israel, due to a generous sponsor who is solely focused on bringing more tech investors to Israel.

The fully funded mission to Israel for institutional investors, taking place September 7–11, timed to coincide with Jefferies TechTrek, the most exclusive investor conference in Israel. Access to TechTrek is included with the mission, and this year’s keynote speaker is Bill Ackman.

All trip costs are fully covered (except for flights), thanks to a generous supporter (and previous participant) who stepped up to fund the mission in hopes of driving more investment into Israel’s high-tech economy.

We’re specifically looking for institutional investors, multi-family offices, fund managers, and allocators with a strong interest in investing in Israeli innovation as a driver of economic growth.

If someone comes to mind, please forward them this application link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeupQoj639be3EdGQawiuGDhcUHrWaYHzX35VTgGSKmZiEjUg/viewform

For questions, DM Israel Tech Mission Executive Director David Nakar

(BTW, I published an essay in the Observer on “How Investors (and Tech Execs) Can Fight Terror”, which I posted on my blog .)

I hope you’ll join our friends at LFC.DEV and Stifel for an exclusive all-day workshop and screening of the Deep Dive into LLMs video from Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI.

​The well-regarded video breaks down how large language models (LLMs) work from first principles, how they’re trained as well as their implementation and limitations. Whether you’re a founder/investor with technical background or not, you’ll walk away with a thorough understanding of the tech powering today’s most transformative AI products.

​As it is a 3.5-hour long video, we will split it into sections and have breaks where we discuss the content and work to answer each other’s questions.

​Sponsored by Stifel Bank and hosted at Company Ventures!

We have a strict capacity limit for this event, so we appreciate if you could show up on time and stay engaged throughout the event.

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My longtime friend and colleague Lee Dranikoff recently founded the first and only company dedicated to training Private Equity Ops professionals.  I am pleased to be able to offer a 10% discount on three of his upcoming classes.  Use the code “Teten“.

• Class 1: Assessing and interviewing for critical talent roles: The class is designed to teach PE Ops professionals the tools and techniques to systematize their interview and assessment techniques.  It will cover how to create out-come based scorecards, road map the interviews, steer the conversation and make better final decisions.  The class will be taught by Patrick Hayes, an expert in talent assessment.  Patrick has performed over 400 C-suite assessments for private equity firms.  Patrick will be joined by David Cohen, a PE partner at Kelso, leading their Human Capital function. (August 6^th 12:00-530 PM in New York). Sign Up or get more information here. (Max Attendees 20)

• Class 2: Designing Management Incentive Plans: This class is designed to teach PE Ops Professionals how to design and implement management incentive plans.  It will cover how to design the right plan using cash bonuses and equity based incentives, how to set performance targets and how to avoid the common pitfalls in alignment with management.  The class will be taught by Marc Hodak, one of the leading experts in management incentives and former business school professor.  Marc will be joined by Jon Weber, one of our industries earliest and most well respected PE Ops leaders. (August 7th, 8:30-1:30 PM in New York). Sign up or get more information here. (Max attendees 20)

• Class 3: The Foundations of PE Ops:  Working in PE Ops is not straightforward and not the same as working in industry or consulting.  This class is designed to make PE Ops professionals successful.  We will cover topics like:  How do build a pipeline of work, How to measure your success and importantly how to get credit for it, how to build an internal brand. We will also review some of the basic principles of private equity since most of us didn’t start in PE.  This class will be taught by Lee Dranikoff  in New York on September 17^th and 18^th.  Sign or get more information here.

I hope you’ll join me on July 10 evening in NYC for a Light Dao Salon in a beautiful private home.  Light Dao is a fast-growing trusted global community of over 4000 conscious investors and entrepreneurs with curated in-person and online gatherings and experiences, having hosted in 16 cities across North and South America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Request admission: https://lu.ma/vydja4dg .

Speakers include the former CEOs of TriNet and 1-800-Flowers; Linda Rottenberg, CEO, Endeavor; Joe Lonsdale; and Mick Mulvaney.  This event is strictly curated.

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The Corporate Dealmakers Forum returns to the Union League Club in New York City this June 4. This premier one-day M&A event brings together 250+ senior dealmakers, including corporate executives, private equity leaders, and M&A advisors.

Join industry leaders for unparalleled deal intelligence and relationship building in the heart of Manhattan. Register now

Select corporate executives and qualified investors may be eligible for complimentary registration. Learn more

Get a 20% discount with code: REU2255ALTS

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Venture Intelligence Day is coming to 74Wythe, Williamsburg, this May! Join 150+ VC experts for a full day of curated panels, tactical talks, and honest conversations on how the best firms operate.

Connect with senior VC leaders, dive into real-world case studies, and explore topics like AI in VC, platform strategy, data-driven decision making, and more. Exclusive 25% discount with code – VID25

Speakers include:

Earlybird: Dr. Andre Retterath (Partner) and Jochen Küst (CFO)

Balderton Capital: Keshvi Radia (Head of Product)

Atomico: Harry Uglow (Senior Software Engineer)

NGP Capital: Atte Honkasalo (Vice President, Data & Analytics)

Keen Venture Partners: Sara McMunn (Operating Partner)

ROI Ventures: Niklas Benesch (Principal)

Zero One Hundred: Adam Durica (Investment Manager)

Elevator Ventures: Iva Rakocevic (Senior Investment Manager)

Movens Capital: Yaroslav Krempovych (Principal)

Newfund: Antoine Latrille (Chief Technical Officer)

P101: Tommaso Condulmari (Senior Data Analyst)

BlackWood Ventures: Bastian Larsen (CEO)

EnBW New Ventures: Erik Vobis (Operations & Finance Manager

Book now to save your seat – space is limited!

Coolwater Capital is hosting its demo day, which we are re-branding as the Coolwater Investor Summit (CIS) in San Francisco, set for May 20, 2025. 

​We are bringing together top investors, thought leaders, and innovators for a day of insightful discussions, exclusive networking, and strategic opportunities.
Coolwater Capital has strived to make a major impact on the innovation ecosystem by helping launch over 250+ funds, which have invested in over 7,000+ companies from a wide range of industries, and raised over $4B since graduating from our program. 

​The Coolwater Investor Summit will present the next generation of emerging VC.  Stay tuned for more details, including the full agenda and speaker lineup. We look forward to welcoming you!

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