Investment Banking

Teten Advisors works with our institutional investor clients to develop a comprehensive strategy to accelerate the inflow of relevant investment opportunities, and increase the number of attractive opportunities in which you successfully invest. We work with you to:

We specialize in using social media and other internet technologies to source proprietary deals, which typically provide a buyer with an informational advantage and in some cases a lower purchase multiple.

Most investment bankers are in the business of selling individual companies. Our preference is to work with our clients to build better fishnets to catch companies. We specialize in helping institutional investors systematically and efficiently improve their deal origination pipeline, particularly in using social media and outsourced research and analytics.

In 2010, we will release an in-depth study on best practices in deal origination, based on our work and on our interviews with over 150 private equity and venture capital professionals. You can learn more about our philosophy and approach in our book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online. You may also be interested in the slides from some presentations we have delivered on this topic to clients, embedded below. Contact us to download a copy of a webinar on this topic.

Best Practices by Private Equity Funds in Deal Origination (Download presentation.)

How Venture Capitalists Source Great Startup Investments (Download presentation.)