About

Winter is the founder and managing member of the investment firm Coolwater Capital. The firm focuses on emerging managers and technology investments. He is author of How To Raise A Venture Capital Fund, and operates Coolwater, an academy for training, building and scaling emerging managers. Coolwater has worked with over 240 emerging managers in the last four years. Prior, Winter helped build and invest an evergreen fund at SAP, a publicly listed enterprise software company, where he co-founded the LP transparency movement called #OpenLP. Winter also worked as a private equity and venture capital investor at a large multi-family office in San Francisco. Winter has completed seventy-nine institutional investments, as well as over twenty-five other investments since leaving his institutional allocator role. He served as junior faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business on Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship. Winter holds a Master of Science degree majoring in Management Research from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University. He lives in Utah with his wife, three children, and his dog Granite. His passion is problem solving in business.

Work with me…

Coolwater Build

A virtual cohort program enabling the next generation of emerging managers building institutional VC firms.

Coolwater Explore

A virtual program for Angel Investors to build and organize their portfolio investments.

Speaking

Available for speaker and moderator roles for conferences and other engagements.