About The Mandel Institute
Our mission is to empower talented yet under-estimated Entrepreneurs to build the next generational wealth through inclusive entrepreneurship, research in deep tech, and access to capital, other resources, and mentorship.
The goal of the Institute is to engage and unify a compelling diversity of talent, ideas, and perspectives in order to optimize the conditions for innovators to bring breakthroughs.
We provide founders with a growing community of fellow entrepreneurs, expert mentorship, and critical resources, including but not limited to seed-founding.
Our leadershop:
David Mandel
Chairman and CEO
Prior to his current career in venture capital, Mr. Mandel built, operated and exited 4 different successful businesses in the Insurance and Finance industries over a 28-year period.
Much of the success of these businesses is attributed to his logical systems thinking, aided by his technical training and advanced Mathematics and Computer Science education, which he used to create and evolve unique perspective and, and models for underwriting, pricing, risk selection, etc., while always taking a fresh outsider’s approach to each venture.
While Mr. Mandel has been a life-long investor, starting in 2014 he took a strong interest in the technology start-up ecosystem, and is now applying his thinking to this endeavor.
Mr. Mandel is a very active angel investor. To date, he has invested in over 500 early-stage technology start-ups. He is an active member of several prominent angel groups, a frequent judge and panelist at start-up pitch events, and is considered a thought leader. Follow Mr. Mandel’s Blog at DavidMandel.Blog and on social media.
He currently serves as Managing Partner at Emerging Ventures Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in capital-efficient late seed-stage, US- and Canada-based B2B tech startups with a specific narrow mandate.
See https://emerging.vc for more on the firm.
His volunteer position as CEO of The Mandel Institute is a way to serve the broader startup community, as he observed the acute need for this through his work in VC, where more than 99% of founders seeking funding are declined.
Through his work here, with the Institute, he hopes to put a small dent in the lack of funding and transparency and other resources to help new entrepreneurs launch their startup.