Preferred Return

Welcome back to season two of the Preferred Return podcast, focused on the transformative power of data and technology within private equity and venture capital firms. In this episode, our host Jeff Williams, Chief Strategy Officer at Altvia, sits down with Matthew Le Merle, Managing Director at Blockchain Coinvestors. Founded in 2014, Blockchain Coinvestors investment thesis is that digital monie...

Join us for a conversation with Kelli Fontaine, Partner at Cendana Capital. Cendana is known for progressive data and technology strategies that have established them as an elite FoF, while generating admiration from their GPs. In this live event, we will sit down with Kelli to discuss data and technology strategies for standing out in today’s LP market.

Isn’t it strange that a startup’s likelihood of failure hardly changes as they mature from Series A to Series B and beyond? You would think the odds improve as a firm matures and achieves significant milestones… Kjael Skaalerud, CRO at Altvia, is joined by Mark Roberge, Co-Founder of Stage 2 Capital, a venture fund focused on enabling go-to-market (GTM) execution for early stage firms. Stage 2 is...

I have an interesting deal for you all, who’s interested? Angel communities have  been held back by manual tools and workflows that prevent collaboration on deal flow, slow down investing decisions and, ultimately, prevent broader participation from those that would like to invest in the start-up asset class without the typical constraints of investing in a VC fund. Jason Burke, Founding Part...

How do you invest in high-growth startups? A chance to participate in the next unicorn…… Kjael Skaalerud, Chief Revenue Officer at Altvia, is joined by Matthew Klein, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer at Sweater Ventures, a firm set on providing the everyday investor access to one of the most exclusive asset classes in the world—venture capital. As the Chief Experience Officer, Matthew is fo...

We are ecstatic to sit down with Renee Niemi and Iris Chan from Mighty Capital, a VC firm that gives its portfolio companies exclusive access to >300,000 PMs and a playbook to turn them into customers. Airbnb, Amplitude, and BlueCedar are among some of their highly curated portfolio companies. In this episode, we discuss the ever churning world of product management in the digital age. You will...

We sit down with Jeff Williams, Chief Strategy Officer, and Brie Aletto, CEO at Altvia, to take a look at what’s new in Q4. From Preqin integrations to improved ways to visualize data with Tableau CRM, we will take a deep dive into features designed seamlessly for your workflows. This webinar will serve as a demonstration of these integrations, and how they can support your firm. We will also look...

Investor onboarding is all the rage right now — the manual, time-consuming process by which limited partners subscribe to private funds is moving in haste to become yet another part of the digital transformation of private markets. We’re thrilled to be joined by Tim Flannery, a co-founder of Passthrough — one company taking an interesting approach to solving this problem.  We discuss the basi...

Join us for a discussion on how to Future Proof Your Private Equity or Venture Capital Firm, with thought leaders and bright minds from across the industry. It’s widely accepted that private capital firms are slow to adopt technology. The appetite is there, though leaders lack the frameworks to understand the role technology can play in the firm, and the action plans that deliver a reasonable path...

In this episode, we’re joined by Steven Greenberg: Co-Founder & CEO of Totem VC, a modern operating system for fund managers. Steven started as an Associate at ff Venture Capital and was also the Co-Founder & CTO at Unroll Me. In 2015 Steven and his co-founder set off to build Totem VC to solve the pain points that arose on a daily basis. Steven is a visionary, having founded his first com...

We’re thrilled to be joined in this episode by Conor Smyth (Founder & CEO) and Melissa Maleri (CMO) of TritonLake, a boutique placement agent that partners with private fund managers and deal sponsors to raise capital from its network of investors. Founded by a team of former software executives, TritonLake is a forward-thinking, technology-driven placement agent, and naturally, we have a live...

Join us for a discussion on The ‘Digital Collision’ Coming for PE & VC, with thought leaders and bright minds from across the industry. We are joined by Charlie Orr, Stone Connell, Bruce Sinclair, Tim Friedman, Jeff Williams, and Kjael Skaalerud. The discussion focuses on: the current state of PE/VC, the potential digital transformation presents, and what the winners / future landscape of PE/V...

Mike Abdella is a one-man force. The Founder and Managing Director of Mauve Capital Partners — a search fund — is laser-focused on finding a business to buy and operate. The problem is finding that business puts him in competition with much larger private equity firms that have access to far more resources, both in terms of people and technology spend. In this episode, we’ll talk through Mike’s pr...

In this episode, I’m joined by Holden Lee: a strategic leader and investor focusing capital to drive meaningful change in the world. His career has been a methodically intentional attempt at developing the unique viewpoint that he has on the next major opportunity in capital markets: Impact and ESG. Having first seen the opportunity in 1992, he explains how he has orchestrated his career to develo...

Private Capital deal management and business development teams allocate a large portion of their time originating new opportunities and expanding the firm’s network. The majority of firms today understand the importance of a well-defined process, however with the transformation of private equity technology, there are new ways to enhance business development processes and improve efficiency.

Private Equity and Venture Capital fundraising looks a lot different these days. With both LPs and GPs social distancing at home, the usual process of fundraising requires Investor Relations teams to take a new approach. As firms evolve, most strategic questions center around maintaining investor engagement and the most effective methods for courting new investors, when the traditional means for b...

"Own Your Edge", as I sit down with Kjael Skaalerud, SVP of Revenue at Altvia to discuss what’s top of mind among PE firms that are currently shopping for technology, and how cutting edge technology used for modern sales organizations translates perfectly to raising capital and finding investment opportunities. Topics covered include: - Trends from the front lines of PE firms looking for technolog...