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Daniel Fetner

General Partner at Alpaca Investor

New York, New York

Overview 

Daniel Fetner is a General Partner at Alpaca VC in New York, specializing in investments in ConstructionTech, Real Estate/PropTech, and FinTech sectors. With an MBA from The Wharton School and a background in entrepreneurship, he has held key roles in various startups, served on multiple boards, and provided strategic advisory services. Fetner's career highlights include co-founding Soil Connect, serving on the board of Acelab, and contributing as a mentor at BOOST, showcasing his expertise in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and business innovation.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2018 - Current

    Alpaca VC is a multi stage venture capital firm. We invest in the people, products and processes that power commerce in the physical and digital world. We believe when you layer technology over daily life, it transforms how the world works. Board Seats (Past & Present): Trade Hounds (Director), Acelab (Director), Doorkee (Observer), Prevu (Observer), Diamond Age (Observer), The Guild (Observer).

Alpaca VC is a thematic venture capital firm that invests in the intersections of the digital and physical worlds.

  • Co-founder

    2019

    Soil Connect is a platform created for excavators, contractors, builders, landscapers and other building professionals who work with soil on a regular basis. Our platform connects those who have soil, with those who need soil. http://www.soilconnect.com

Soil Connect is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for dirt solutions in the construction industry.

Raised $9,543,513.00 from Cemex Ventures, Heartland Ventures, Connexa Capital, Arka Venture Labs, AB Investment Group, TIA Ventures, EquipmentShare, Romulus Capital and Pine Management.

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2021

    Information marketplace connecting architects and manufacturers

Acelab is a developer of the architecture based online platform that connects architects and manufacturers.

Raised $8,765,001.00 from PJC, Draper Associates, Transcend Partners, Pillar VC, Ken Lang, Klingenstein, Fields & Co, Erik Jarnryd, Alpaca VC, WestView Capital Partners and Steve Kaufer.

  • Mentor

    2022

    The Boost Program is a selective, high energy, intensive, 6-week accelerator program in which construction industry experts roll up their sleeves alongside early-stage property and construction technology start-up companies to help them break industry boundaries. Boost is a Suffolk Technologies Accelerator Program - https://www.linkedin.com/company/suffolk-technologies/

Accelerator for built world startups

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2020

    Trade Hounds is an online community for the hard-working trades people of America.

  • Strategic Advisor, Technology

    2020

  • Chief of Staff

    2018 - 2020

    Corigin is a real estate investment firm. We apply a conscious and dynamic approach to our business by making purposeful decision that take all stakeholders into consideration. With deep roots in the industry, we seek to constantly innovate and evolve through changing markets, while staying true to our core values.

Corigin is a private real estate investment firm that specializes in owning, operating and developing multifamily assets.

  • Investor & Advisor

    2018

    Formerly a co-founder & COO, transitioned to Advisor role as Instrument Capital launches Fintech Fund 1 - an investing vehicle to support the next generation of promising Fintech companies. https://www.instrumentcapital.com/

  • Co-Founder & COO

    2016 - 2017

    Instrument Capital is democratizing a level of portfolio personalization that historically has only been available to UHNW Clients in Private Banks. Our statistical algorithms are designed to consider a consumer’s occupation (by industry), real estate (by zip code) and several other “non-traditional” factors during the portfolio construction & asset allocation process. www.instrumentcapital.com

  • Investor & Advisor

    2015

    Provide counsel to CEO and senior management team on strategy, fundraising & growth initiatives.

  • Real Estate Technology & Innovation Council

    2019 - 2021

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