# Winter Mead, Young Leaders Circle

> Winter Mead, Young Leaders Circle. The rounds they were named in and the filings that name them, each with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/person/winter-mead (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

San Francisco, US · Angel

# Winter Mead

Young Leaders Circle

Profile summary

- **Rounds named:** - none observed
- **Filings:** 2 with regulators
- **Podcasts:** 6 +2 mentions

What this record rests on

- **Named in rounds** No round names them yet
- ✓ **On filings** 2 filings with a regulator
- **Linked to a firm** No firm on record
- **Claimed** Not claimed yet

Titles come from filings their firm signed.

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## Companies they are listed as backing

Portfolio

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## Where they are named on record

Filings

- SEC Form D · Other investment fund **Coolwater Capital Cohort Fund II LP** Executive Officer since 2025
- SEC Form D · Other investment fund **COOLWATER CAPITAL BUILDER FUND I LP** Executive Officer since 2023

Each row is a document a firm filed with a regulator: somebody signed it, and it carries a date.

## Hear them before you pitch them

- [Superclusters](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/superclusters) · 25 Mar 2024 · 1h 13m The Questions that Form an LP Investment Thesis | Winter Mead | Superclusters | S2E3 With [Winter Mead](https://millionrounds.com/person/winter-mead) Mentions [Harvard University](https://millionrounds.com/fund/harvard-university)[University of Oxford](https://millionrounds.com/fund/university-of-oxford) About this episode Winter Mead is the Founder and Managing Member of the investment firm Coolwater Capital, which exclusively focuses on emerging managers and technology investments. Coolwater is an academy for training, building and scaling emerging managers, a curated community of VC investors and early-stage… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [How I Invest](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/how-i-invest) · 8 Dec 2023 · 50 min E26: Winter Mead of Coolwater on Building the YC for GPs With [Winter Mead](https://millionrounds.com/person/winter-mead) About this episode Winter Mead, Founder and CEO of Coolwater Capital sits down with David Weisburd to discuss the importance of emerging managers and how Coolwater Capital is building the YC for GPs. We’re proudly sponsored by Bidav Insurance Group, visit lux-str.com if you’re ready to level up your insurance plans. More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [Latitud Podcast](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/latitud) · 7 Oct 2021 · 59 min #62 - Creating the YC of fund managers: Winter Mead, Oper8r With [Winter Mead](https://millionrounds.com/person/winter-mead) Mentions [Sapphire Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sapphire-ventures) About this episode Winter Mead grew up on a maple syrup farm in New England. After writing his grad-school thesis on technology trends in digital media, he relocated to Silicon Valley to test his own theories. Now teaching about entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford University Graduate School of… Listen on Apple Podcasts
- [The Full Ratchet](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/full-ratchet) · 30 Aug 2021 · 59 min 297. How to Raise a VC Fund, The YC for Emerging Managers, and Family Office Trends (Winter Mead) With [Winter Mead](https://millionrounds.com/person/winter-mead) Mentions [Republic](https://millionrounds.com/fund/republic-2) About this episode Winter Mead of Oper8r joins Nick to discuss How to Raise a VC Fund, The YC for Emerging Managers, and Family Office Trends. In this episode we cover: Tell us a little more about Oper8or. Why did you leave Sapphire to start this program? Give us an overview of Oper8or? Walk us through the… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [Venture Unlocked](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/venture-unlocked) · 16 Feb 2021 · 50 min Welly Sculley & Winter Mead of Oper8r on building the “YC for fund managers” and tips for launching a firm - Venture Unlocked 022 With [Winter Mead](https://millionrounds.com/person/winter-mead) Mentions [Ripple](https://millionrounds.com/fund/ripple) About this episode As the Emerging Manager world continues to grow, so does the importance of providing these managers with key education, resources, and community. Enter Oper8r, founded by Welly Sculley and Winter Mead, which is looking to become the “Y-Combinator for venture fund managers”. Prior to launching… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [Village Global Podcast](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/village-global) · 13 Feb 2020 · 1h 5m #OpenLP: Winter Mead and David Booth With [Winter Mead](https://millionrounds.com/person/winter-mead) About this episode Winter Mead (@wintmead), an LP formerly of Sapphire, and David Booth (@david__booth), co-founder and CEO of OnDeck, join Erik on this episode. They discuss: - Assessing fund managers from an LP perspective, and what it means to be “too diversified” in VC. - Enabling the next generation of GPs. -… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page

### Mentioned in

Episodes that name Winter Mead in their description, which is not the same as being on them.

- [The Full Ratchet](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/full-ratchet) · 24 Mar 2022 · 8 min Investor Stories 236: Lessons Learned (Mead, Suissa, Foxe Blader) Mentions [Winter Mead](https://millionrounds.com/person/winter-mead)[Yanev Suissa](https://millionrounds.com/person/yanev-suissa) About this episode On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Winter Mead, Yanev Suissa, and Ruth Foxe Blader. Each investor illustrates a critical lesson learned about startup investing and how it's changed their approach. Did you miss our guests full length episodes?… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page
- [The Full Ratchet](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/full-ratchet) · 20 Jan 2022 · 7 min Investor Stories 227: Post Mortems (Hung, Requarth, Mead) Mentions [Brian Requarth](https://millionrounds.com/person/brian-requarth)[Jonathan Hung](https://millionrounds.com/person/jonathan-hung)[Winter Mead](https://millionrounds.com/person/winter-mead) About this episode On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Jonathan Hung Brian Requarth Winter Mead Each investor discusses a portfolio company that did not survive and why it was that they failed. Did you miss our guests full length episodes? For other great episodes,… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page

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