We’re happy to share the latest in AltsTech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha. I’m fortunate to interview my Partner Dave Yen, co-founder, Orange Collective. OrangeCollective.vc is a VC fund exclusively investing in AI companies from Y Combinator. YC is the world’s leading tech accelerator; the median...
[Continue Reading]🇺🇸 NYC Conference September 3: Investors for a Better America 🇺🇸
I hope you’ll join me September 3 in Manhattan for the first-ever conference on “Investors for a Better America”. We believe generating strong investment returns is far easier in a healthy constitutional democracy. Investors for a Better America is a nonpartisan conference that aims to activate investors and family offices from across the political spectrum...
[Continue Reading]PilotWave: Transforming Main Street through institutional-grade AI
We’re happy to share the latest in AltsTech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha. We’re fortunate to interview Afsheen Afshar — Founder & Managing Partner, Pilot Wave Holdings. Please give us an overview of your firm. Pilot Wave is a lower middle market private equity firm in...
[Continue Reading]How investors & consultancies can monetize their operational data
Halluminate.ai, an Orange Collective portfolio company, wants to license the internal operational data of financial institutions, consulting firms, or similar knowledge work institutions, e.g., old deal rooms, client projects, etc. They will pay you up to 6 or 7 digits. Halluminate works with Anthropic, OpenAI, and other leading AI labs to build RL (Reinforcement Learning)...
[Continue Reading]How to Invest in Y Combinator Companies at Demo Day and Before
I recently led a Lunch and Learn for 37 Angels on “How to Invest in Y Combinator Companies at Demo Day and Before”. Thanks to Angela Lee and Gabriel Mejia of 37 Angels for hosting, and my Partners Jason Freedman, Dave Yen, and Ryan Bednar for sharing their deep experience with Y Combinator....
[Continue Reading]Our Y Combinator Investments from the Current Batch
We’ve announced three new Orange Collective portfolio companies from the most recent P26 Y Combinator batch: Sazabi, Akkari, and Superset. Sazabi is one of the fastest-growing companies in the current YC batch. They’re rethinking observability for the AI era, replacing traditional dashboards with AI that can identify issues across a company’s systems and increasingly take...
[Continue Reading]Boringtech VC and AI: Ascii Ventures
We’re happy to share the latest in AltsTech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha. We’re fortunate to interview Brian Wong, GP of Ascii Ventures. David Teten: Please give us an overview of your firm. Ascii Ventures is a pre-seed venture firm focused on what we call “boringtech”...
[Continue Reading]From Outsourced CFO to VC: N6 Ventures Tech Stack
We’re happy to share the latest in AltsTech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha. We’re fortunate to interview Ryan Gaines, Founder of N6 Ventures. David Teten: Please give us an overview of your firm. Ryan Gaines: N6 Ventures is a $5M seed-stage venture fund based in Palo...
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