David Teten is Founder of Versatile VC and a Partner with Orange Collective, a fund backed by 150+ Y Combinator alumni backing Y Combinator founders. David is Chair of AltsTech, a community focused on helping family offices, lenders, private equity and venture capital funds make better investments through technology. He also chairs Founders’ Next Move, a community for founders exploring new ideas. He was previously a Partner with Coolwater Capital, which invests into emerging fund managers as a limited partner, into general partnerships, and in fund management companies. He was previously a Managing Partner with HOF Capital and a Partner with ff Venture Capital, two New York VC funds. In both cases, the firms grew both AUM and their LP base >10x during his tenure. HOF Capital now manages over $2b AUM with LPs from 37 countries. David is Founder of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York, now the largest angel group on the East Coast. He has also advised private equity clients such as Activate Venture Partners, Birch Hill Equity Partners, Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Icahn Enterprises, LLR Partners, Orascom TMT Investments (Sawiris family office), Real Ventures, Right Side Capital, Tiferes.vc, Transform Investment Group, and other institutional investors.
David was previously a Managing Director with Evalueserve, a 2,500-person global research and analytics company, and Founder and CEO of Circle of Experts, an investment research firm acquired by Evalueserve. He also founded Teten Recruiting, which he sold to Accolo, a recruiting process outsourcing firm. He worked in Bear Stearns’ Investment Banking division in their technology/defense mergers and acquisitions team. He formerly ran an outsourced software development and IT consulting group. David holds a Harvard MBA (Second Year Honors) and a Yale BA in Economics and Psychology.
David has contributed original research on investing topics to Entrepreneur.com, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, PE Hub, Institutional Investor, Techcrunch, and VentureBeat, and has presented his research at many industry conferences. He writes periodically at teten.com.
