Corporate Venture Capital - Investment Associate, Board of Directors

Enhancing Success in Venture Capital: Expertise and Achievements

As an accomplished professional in Corporate Venture Capital, I possess a diverse range of skills and techniques that have contributed to my success in this field.

Sourcing Promising Investment Opportunities

With my refined sourcing skills, I actively identify new and promising investment opportunities. Leveraging my networking abilities, attending industry events, and conducting extensive online research, I discover potential early-stage startups.

Seamless Investment Process

Following a well-orchestrated sequence, I diligently navigate the investment process. Thorough due diligence is conducted, analyzing financial and strategic aspects to evaluate each opportunity’s potential. Negotiating favorable terms and ensuring a smooth closing are key aspects of my approach.

Building Valuable Networks

Networking plays a pivotal role in venture capital, allowing me to establish valuable relationships with entrepreneurs and fellow investors. Engaging in networking activities, connecting with like-minded professionals, and attending industry events keep me updated on market trends and potential investment partners.

Strategic Guidance as a Board Member

Serving on the Board of Directors of portfolio companies as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Treasurer, I provide strategic guidance and oversight. Through my expertise and insights, I facilitate decision-making and support the implementation of innovative solutions.

Maximizing Returns with Meticulous Analysis

Managing an assets under management (AUM) of $20 million, my focus is on achieving a strong return on investment (ROI). Through meticulous analysis and decision-making, I strive to maximize returns for my firm and investors. Demonstrating my ability, I have achieved 8 successful exits and made 29 investments.

Driving Innovation and Efficiency

The startups I invest in address critical business pain points, driving efficiency and innovation. By identifying and supporting companies with disruptive solutions, I contribute to the entrepreneurial ecosystem and foster positive change.

My expertise in sourcing, navigating the investment process, networking, serving on the Board of Directors, managing substantial AUM, achieving a strong ROI, and nurturing startups with innovative solutions have been instrumental in my success in venture capital.

Early-Stage Startup Exits - $16M ROI

2016

EyeVerify

Acquired by Ant Financial in 2016Eyeprint ID, created by EyeVerify, transforms an ordinary selfie into a key that protects your digital life. This patented, software-only biometric solution is 99.99% accurate and extremely scalable. In less than one second, employees and customers can experience password-free mobility and convenient, secure, private authentication.

2020

Motiv

Acquired by Cisco

Motiv is a breakthrough wearable technology company focused on designing products that fit seamlessly into people’s lives and enable trust in a connected world.

2020

Splice Machine

Acquired by an undisclosed buyer

Leveraging in-memory technology from Spark and scale-out capabilities from Hadoop, Splice Machine can replace Oracle and MySQL databases, while increasing performance by 10 to 20 times faster at one-fourth the cost. The Splice Machine relational database management system (RDBMS) provides exceptional performance for simultaneous online analytical processing (OLAP) and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, enabling companies to unlock the insights in their big data to make decisions in the moment.

2021

MotionSavvy

Acquired by an undisclosed buyer

MotionSavvy is developing a translation tool for the deaf and hard of hearing by working with gesture recognition technology Leap Motion along with various mobile devices which targets sign language users for improved accessibility. Its goal is to provide the 370 million deaf and hard-of-hearing market worldwide with a cost-affordable product against current competitors.

2021

Context360

Acquired by an undisclosed buyer

Context360 has developed the first autonomous mobile personalization solution that seamlessly integrates insights into mobile application use with contextual information derived from smartphone sensors to provide brand marketers with direct access to unmatched insights into user interests, status, motion patterns, and trends.

2022

The Climate Service (TCS)

Acquired by S&P Global

The Climate Service (TCS) enables corporations and financial services firms to measure, monitor, and manage their financial risks and opportunities due to climate change.

2022

Alpha Fintech

Acquired by PPRO

Alpha Fintech consolidates the entire payments world onto one Payments-as-a-Service platform, the AlphaHub, which enables banks, merchants, PSPs and ISOs to access any payment type, any solution provider, anywhere in the world. The depth and range of connected service providers and solutions span across the entire transactional, risk management and commerce solution spectrum. The AlphaHub’s orchestration engine enables users to customize down to the individual transaction layer using conditional logic, leveraging each vendor’s unique functionality and benefits.

2022

Jewel Paymentech

Acquired by Advance Intelligence Group

Jewel Paymentech is a financial risk technology company founded in 2014 with a mission to develop intelligent risk solutions for the banking and electronic payments industry. Jewel’s suite of solutions helps banks and payment facilitators conduct merchant due diligence and manage transaction fraud risks using predictive analytics. Jewel also offers automated real-time solutions to large merchants such as marketplaces, to identify illegal and counterfeit goods. In 2015, Jewel was named by SWIFT as one of the most promising FinTech companies in Asia.

2022

Amicus.io

Acquired by TIFIN

2022

ProxToMe

Acquired by non disclosed buyer

ProxToMe is a SaaS proximity technology for mobile access to any smart device. Within a mobile wallet, ProxToMe delivers cross-platform contactless mobile access to self-checkout kiosks, POS terminals, ATMs, gaming machines... the possibilities are endless.

2023

Roostify

Acquired by CoreLogic

Roostify is a web and mobile service that makes the home buying experience easier and quicker for everyone involved. Led by technology, real estate, and mortgage banking experts, Roostify provides step-by-step guidance in home and loan closing.

2024

Ascent Technologies

Acquired by Edgewater Equity

Ascent RegTech’s end-to-end compliance platform, powered by regulation AI, is a groundbreaking new way to navigate the increasingly complex world of regulations quickly, efficiently, and most important of all, reliably.

Venture Capital Skills

Deal Sourcing

Networking

Market Analysis

Due Diligence

Financial Modeling

Startup Mentorship

Startup Ecosystem

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

Thought Leadership

Board Observer

Collaboration

Revenue Generating Exits

Board of Directors

Growth Strategy

Investment Process

Digital Transformation

POC Product Management

Portfolio Management

Emerging Technology

Events & Conferences

Go-To-Market

29

Investments

8

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

10

Exits

$16M

ROI