Founded in September 2017, Teca Partners (Teca) is a New York-based hedge fund management firm established by Fernando Vigil, leveraging his extensive 20-year investment career spanning public and private equity. Fernando's background includes senior roles at Bain Capital, where he most recently served as Managing Director at Brookside Capital (a.k.a. Bain Capital Public Equity) from 2008. At Brookside, he co-headed the consumer sector, overseeing a global portfolio of long and short positions, with a focus on U.S., European, and Latin American markets. His responsibilities encompassed the entire investment lifecycle—from idea generation and due diligence to portfolio management and risk mitigation.
Before Brookside, Fernando spent seven years with Bain Capital Ventures, where he progressed from Analyst to Principal, focusing on growth and venture capital investments in software, information services, and healthcare. Before Bain Capital, he gained experience at Trilogy Software. Fernando holds a B.A. in Economics with distinction from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he distinguished himself as a Baker Scholar and Siebel Scholar.
Teca Partners specializes in managing a long-biased public equity hedge fund, featuring a concentrated portfolio of 10-15 investments selected for their structural appeal in consumer and technology sectors. The firm employs a research-intensive, private equity-like approach to investment analysis, aiming for superior returns over a 3 to 5 year horizon. As a registered investment advisory firm, Teca Partners reported $157,493,587 in managed 13F securities in their Q1 2024 filing, with a top 10 holdings concentration of 86.5%. Their largest holding is Guidewire Software, Inc., with 202,932 shares held.
