I hope you’ll join other family offices and impact investors in Manhattan, during Climate Week, at the Transformative Ventures Family Office Meta Gathering/Impact Summit:
Sept 25-26: Transformative Ventures Family Office Meta Gathering This is the final call for applications to our private investor convening. We have only a handful of spots left for family offices, philanthropists, and impact investors ready to collaborate on systems-level change. Apply Here: https://lu.ma/mh7sk6n5
Sept 27-28: The Transformative Impact Summit Join the global ecosystem of changemakers, innovators, and leaders for two days of unparalleled connection and collaboration in NYC. Get In-Person Tickets: https://lu.ma/uj11ezkm
Can’t be in NYC? You can still be part of the experience! Join us online through our official live stream of all mainstage talks and panels. Register for the Live Stream: https://luma.com/1imje3rq
Build First and Company Ventures are hosting a half-day, in-person workshop in New York City on Thursday, September 19, from 1–5 p.m. called Vibe Coding for VCs.
This program is designed for venture investors and operating partners who want to get closer to the code behind their portfolio companies and better understand how AI is actually built.
Why attend?
AI fluency is a new baseline. Learning AI is less like picking up a new tool and more like acquiring a new language.
Hands-on practice. You’ll learn a proven AI design framework (developed with Decoded Futures) that has already been used to build 100+ custom GPTs and 50+ mini-apps.
Structured build time. You’ll build something together, then split into an “AI Power Hour” where you’ll create your own faster project, with technical specialists on hand to help troubleshoot.
Practical outcomes. You’ll leave with new context on AI architecture, frameworks, and a working build you’ve coded yourself.
Why it matters for VCs Understanding the builder’s perspective is critical for investors. As AI reshapes how we work, operate, and collaborate, it will also reshape what it means to be a founder—and how VCs assess, support, and fund them. This workshop is a chance to experience that shift firsthand.
Logistics
Date/Time: Thursday, Sept. 19, 1–5 p.m.
Location: Company Ventures, New York City
Hosts: Bethany Crystal (Build First) with Matt Harrigan and Sanice Embleton (Company Ventures)
About the facilitator
The workshop is led by Bethany Crystal, a VC-turned operator with 15 years of experience in tech. She previously worked at Union Square Ventures and Variant Fund, supporting early-stage founders across dozens of portfolio companies. As an operator, she has led strategy, community, and scaling efforts at organizations like the Uniswap Foundation, and Tech:NYC. Today she is the founder of Build First, focused on helping investors and executives gain practical fluency in AI by building.
Registration
You can register through Build First (AI-powered) or Luma (classic) Special Offer: Use promo code TETEN20025 for $100 off registration.
Curated by Angelo Robles—a family office advisor with over two decades of experience—alongside Alexander Galambos, a leading European family office liaison—this experience is built by families, for families.
I’m honored to be one of the speakers at this curated event. On September 15-17, you’ll experience:
Distinguished speakers, including Chris Voss, Former Chief Hostage Negotiator, FBI, Harvard Professor and CEO & Founder, Black Swan Group; Andrew Brenton, formerly CEO of the private equity subsidiary of The Bank of Nova Scotia
BATTLE OF IDEAS: One stage. Two perspectives. No safe takes. A real debate. Battle of Ideas is a face-to-face showdown between two thinkers with radically different views on the issues that matter most to families of wealth, from investing and governance to AI, inflation, geopolitics, and freedom.
Actionable strategies you can apply immediately to protect, grow, and evolve your family enterprise
A curated circle of world-class families and wealth creators—real operators, not spectators
Unfiltered insight into what’s working (and what’s not) from those on the front lines of generational wealth
Immersive environments that elevate both the conversations and the connections—from elegant receptions to private family-led sessions
We conclude (September 17th) with an extended private member luncheon at one of New York City’s finest steakhouses—an intimate, high-caliber gathering curated exclusively for our members.
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Over the course of three hours, we’ll hear directly from top family office investors as they share bold conviction plays across:
AI – Breaking down the full stack: Chips → Data Centers → Models → Deployment Infrastructure → End Applications. We’ll explore where the alpha is—whether it’s NVIDIA and GPU monopolies, cloud-sovereign infrastructure, custom LLMs, or the arms race for deployment into enterprise and consumer ecosystems.
Crypto – Including Bitcoin, yield-bearing stablecoins, and the likely future financial rails (yes, we’re talking Ripple Labs)
Real Estate – Tactical opportunities in a post-rate-shock landscape
Explore the full agenda and speaker briefs here: Full Program & Speaker Details
Venture: RSM US LLP 151 West 42nd Street, 19th Fl, New York, NY 10036 4 Times Square, 19th Floor New York, NY 10036
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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 6th 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 17th and 18th. 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.
