About Orange Collective
David Teten

David Teten

Partner

David Teten was previously Partner at Coolwater Capital, incubating emerging VCs and graduating >300 VCs which have raised >$5B collectively.

He served as Managing Partner at HOF Capital (now $4b AUM) and Partner at ffVC (now $300m AUM).

He founded Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.

He served on the boards of Ionic (sold to Twilio), Authorea (sold to Wiley), Earnest Analytics (Observer, sold to Consumer Edge), Signup.com (sold to management), and Whisk (sold to Deem).

He's known for his work in the LP community, serving as an expert in technology for capital allocators.


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