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At the end of this post, you'll find a unique deep dive on "Who Should Own the Tech Stack: Investors vs Engineers" with Rahul Nath (Accel), Jamesin Seidel (Chapter One), Madalin Mihailescu (Georgian), and Jelmer de Jong (RTP Global).

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I'm excited to share one of the most watched sessions from the Virtual DDVC Summit 2026!

When I joined Earlybird almost a decade ago, there was one Associate owning the tech stack, mostly Salesforce as CRM and Google for storage and email management. A foreigner to the industry, I needed to learn all tasks from scratch, and while I was doing so, I automated as much as I could right away. Quickly, I became the “tech owner” at Earlybird.

Observing the early potential of AI and automation, we sat together in 2020 and agreed that the leading investment firm of the future will be augmented: few human investors with strong judgment and unique deal access supported by AI. Hereof, we hired the first engineer in 2021 and scaled the team to eight FTEs at the peak.

Some years - and lots of lessons learned - later, our tech team is now three senior engineers who build everything we need to become more efficient and effective across the firm. A lean setup that’s more powerful than a team tripple the size was just two years before.

As I’ve been sharing my learnings from that journey with the growing DDVC community, one of the most frequently asked questions remains: who should own the tech stack? And while I’ve seen various models first-hand, my sample of firms is one.

Therefore, I took this question to our 2026 Virtual DDVC Summit and asked for thought leaders from the DDVC community building investment tech stacks in real time:

Jameson Seidel, General Partner at Chapter One and former Twitter data scientist, who built out the firm's internal systems while running investments alongside it.

Rahul Nath, Chief Product Officer at Accel, who is building the deal sourcing, deal management, and portfolio monitoring platform for the firm's global investment team.

Madalin Mihailescu, CTO at Georgian, who leads a 20-person AI lab split between portfolio company work and internal tooling for Georgian's investment team.

Jelmer de Jong, Partner at RTP Global, who joined as the firm's first CTO hire before moving into investing, and now splits time between the two.

Watch if you want to learn:

Here’s the link to the full panel discussion👇