Tech Council Ventures LLC
Discover how we invest in and support early-stage tech companies in the Mid-Atlantic region, driving innovation and growth.
In the firm's own words, from its website.
6 additional team members, 10 additional co-investors and affiliates, 5 additional investments, funds and LPs, 2 events, 1 verified contact (1 firm phone)
Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.
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What matters now
- 2 vehicleson Form D, 18 months
2 vehicles filed a Form D in the last 18 months, the latest BetterFutureLabs Fund I on 25 Aug 2026. Largest offerings: BetterFutureLabs Fund I $4M and BetterFutureLabs Holdings $4M. $1.28M reported sold so far.
A Form D is filed when a vehicle takes its first money, so these are open to LPs now.
- 1 companynew in 12 months
1 new company in the last 12 months.
A firm writing cheques this quarter is one a founder can pitch now.
People to know
View all people- Managing Partner & FounderWhy: Managing partner: runs the firmNo route on file yet
- Managing PartnerWhy: Managing partner: runs the firmNo route on file yet
- MemberWhy: Named with investment responsibilityNo route on file yet
Relationship network
33 connected entities1 observed round
From financing rounds and every investor named in them, Form ADV and Form D filings, the firm's funds and team, and disclosed LP commitments in the venture capital graph. A round's amount is the size of the round, not money that moved between two investors.
Some relationships on this record are counted rather than named here. They open with the full profile.
Click any name or line for the rounds and sources behind it. Line weight is rounds together; dashed lines are inferred.
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- Company
- Fund or vehicle
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›How strength and recency are read
Co-investors are read from the rounds: three or more shared rounds is a strong observed relationship, two a repeat co-investor, one a single round. Funds and people are structural. Nothing is scored that a reader cannot check.
Darker lines were active in the last 24 months or are current; lighter lines are older or undated.
How am I connected?
Name your firm, a company or a person, and DFX finds the published routes to Tech Council Ventures LLC: a shared portfolio company or board, a prior employer, a co-investor, a shared LP or service provider. Every step is a filed or published record with its source; none is a guess about who knows whom.
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Investing
5 companies on record, 1 new in 12 months
Investments on record
What these amounts mean“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.Acquired, Public, Exited and Active are what the firm’s own portfolio card says, read on the date shown when you hover the chip; they are not deal dates. A company with no chip is one whose card states no outcome: DFX does not assume it is active.| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {{{Data.Link}}} | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Firm website |
| itemDataObject.attrTitle || null | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Firm website |
| Lookit® Design | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Firm website |
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
- Sectors
- edtech
- Stages
- seed, series a, early
- Geography
- global, united states
- Check size
- $500,000 to $3.0M stated by the firm
Team
9 current, 1 departed
Decision makers
- Jim Gunton · Managing Partner & FounderWhy this person: Managing partner: runs the firm; Named with investment responsibility
- Steve Socolof · Managing PartnerWhy this person: Managing partner: runs the firm; Named with investment responsibility
Ranked by the role the firm or its filing states, a route on file and deals led. Every reason is read from the record, never inferred. Routes are published by the person or the firm (their bio, the team page or a filing) and are revealed on a plan; data bought from a provider is never shown, and a route printed at a firm the person has since left is held back.
Investment team
How the team is orderedPartners who lead rounds first (rounds led, then deals attributed, then seniority), then the rest of the investment team, then investor relations, finance and operations. A person named by two sources under two spellings is shown once.- Managing Partner & Founder
- Managing Partner
- Member
1 departed (kept with end dates)
- Marc Steven Rappoport · Chief Financial Officer · Jan 1, 2017 to Apr 2, 2020 Inference
Contacts
1 firm phone on record, each with its source. Values open with the complete profile.
Funds and LPs
6 vehicles, 0 LPs disclosed
Funds and vehicles
What these amounts meanGAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BetterFutureLabs Holdings LLC | Fund | 2026 form d first sale | Fundraising | unknown | unknown | $640,000 of $4.0M | Aug 25, 2026 |
| BetterFutureLabs Fund I LP | Fund | 2026 form d first sale | Fundraising | unknown | unknown | $640,000 of $4.0M | Aug 25, 2026 |
| Tech Council Ventures III LP | Fund | 2023 form d first sale | Active deployment | $22.0M Jun 18, 2024 | 60 | $19.1M of $75.0M | Aug 26, 2024 |
Limited partners
Known LPs and allocators
What these amounts and dates areEach commitment is counted once across the pension tape and the allocator graph. A commitment date prints only when the source printed one; otherwise the row carries the report date. A foundation’s 990-PF line is a holding at fair value, never a commitment. Rows without a fund on the venture graph are commitments to this manager.Relationships across DFX
13 co-investors
Co-investors
- 2026-10-011 shared deal · one time
- 2026-09-301 shared deal · one time
- 2026-09-301 shared deal · one time
Compare portfolios with Otro Capital, B Capital Group, Alumni Ventures or any firm. Co-investors across the market
Evidence and history
7 dated events, 55 observations from 4 sources
Timeline
- seen on or beforeSep 15, 2026Tech Council Ventures LLC: MICRO_VC -> INSTITUTIONAL_VC (venture manager, reported GAV $58M across 4 vehicles)Classification changedClassificationInference
- Jun 18, 2024Tech Council Ventures III LP first reported on Form ADV by Tech Council Ventures LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $22,000,000
- Jun 18, 2024Tech Council Ventures Iii-Ai LP first reported on Form ADV by Tech Council Ventures LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $7,500,000
- Apr 2, 2020Marc S Rappoport (Chief Financial Officer) no longer on Schedule A of Tech Council Ventures LLC
- Mar 27, 2018Tech Council Ventures LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)
Identity and regulatory footprint
Address, phone, Form ADV filing and ownersForm ADV filed Jun 18, 2024 · 4 private fundsShowHide
- Headquarters
- Summit, NJadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- TECHCOUNCILVENTURES.COM
- SEC adviser type
- Exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- Venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Jun 18, 2024
- Private funds reported
- 4 (4 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets, adviser total
- $58.1Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
Classification history
Classification history
Every classification this record has carried3 on recordShowHide
- Sep 23, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%)Venture manager, reported GAV $58M across 6 vehicles
- Sep 15, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%)Venture manager, reported GAV $58M across 4 vehicles
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (confirmed, 95%)Venture manager, reported GAV $28.6M across 2 vehicles
Evidence
Every observation behind this profile, with its source, date and class
| Fact | Value | Effective | Class | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Why admitted | VC exemption, VC funds reported | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC exemption claimed | Venture capital fund adviser | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC exemption claimed | Venture capital fund adviser | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC adviser type | Exempt reporting adviser | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC adviser type | Exempt reporting adviser | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| First Form ADV filing | 2018-03-27 | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Adv history loaded | adv-hist-1 | Sep 12, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Latest Form ADV filing | 2024-06-18 | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Latest Form ADV filing | 2024-06-18 | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC status | ERA - Active | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| SEC status effective | 2018-03-27 | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Venture share of reported funds | 1 | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Business phone | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Business phone | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Contact page url | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Description | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Description | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Headquarters | Summit, NJ | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Headquarters | Summit, NJ | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Office address | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Office address | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Legal form | Limited Liability Company | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Legal form | Limited Liability Company | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Portfolio page | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Portfolio page | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Private funds reported | 4 | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private funds reported | 4 | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private fund gross assets (reported) | $58.1M | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private fund gross assets (reported) | $58.1M | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Schedule a diff | sadiff-1 | Sep 27, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Stated check (high) | $3.0M | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated check (high) | $3.0M | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated check (low) | $500,000 | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated check (low) | $500,000 | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated geography | Global, united states “geography words on the home page” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated geography | Global, united states “geography words on the home page” | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated sectors | edtech “sector words on the home page” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated sectors | edtech “sector words on the home page” | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated stages | Seed, series a, early “stage words on the home page” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated stages | Seed, series a, early “stage words on the home page” | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | |
| Team page | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Team page | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Venture funds reported | 4 | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Venture funds reported | 4 | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Website | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Website | Jun 18, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Site title | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Site title | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact |
How this is scored
Scores, classification basis and filing advisersInstitutional venture firm, confirmedShowHide
Venture manager, reported GAV $58M across 6 vehicles
- importance
- gav: 0.23 · funds: 0.5 · people: 0.24 · investments: 0.26 · co investors: 0.45
- active deployment
- investments 12m: 0.13 · fund raising 18m: 1 · people joined 12m: 0 · vintage within 3y: 1 · latest investment at: 2026-09-03
- emerging manager
- fund count: 6 · reported gav: $58.1M · first adv filing: 2018-03-27 · years since first filing: 8.5
Fits, record history and connections
scored matches for this investor, every identity change, every edge
Record history
- Organization classification changed2026-09-15
- Adviser's first ADV filing2018-03-27source on record
The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.