Emerging Ventures combines David Mandel's experience as a "super angel" who personally invested in 500+ early-stage tech startups with his 28-year background building and exiting four insurance and finance businesses, where he applied advanced math and systems thinking to risk models—expertise he now ports into evaluating early-stage technology companies. The fund uses an explicit 80/20 portfolio structure where ~80% targets companies using current technologies to improve existing processes while ~20% focuses on "true deep tech" inventing next-generation technologies, with check sizes of $100k–$500k aimed at capital-efficient B2B tech companies that have clear early traction and are likely to raise larger institutional rounds within 12–24 months.